Board continues to show live updates in Jeremy Hosking’s storage space which will open to public next weekend
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n a cavernous concrete warehouse on an industrial estate outside Margate in Kent, an enormous screen flickers, day and night, telling the times of train services from north London to Manchester Piccadilly and Glasgow Central and Tring.
Whether or not anyone is there to see it, the 22-metre-wide board never stops flashing up live, genuine updates of departures by West Midlands Railway or service disruptions on Avanti West Coast services.
This, until recently, was the main departure board of Euston station, one of the capital’s busiest mainline railway hubs. And although it now hangs 80 miles from its original home, where no one has any ability to jump on a train to Watford Junction or anywhere else, it is still plugged into the national network and doing its old job, like a nostalgic retiree unable to let go.
