station clock
Illustration — Clock tower with station clock, Waterbury Union Station, Waterbury, Connecticut, USA. A station clock is a clock at a railway station that provides a standard indication of time to both passengers and railway staff. A railway station will often have several station clocks. They can be found in a clock tower, in the booking hall or office, on the concourse, inside a train shed, on or facing the station platforms, or elsewhere.
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Illustration — Clock tower with station clock, Waterbury Union Station, Waterbury, Connecticut, USA. A station clock is a clock at a railway station that provides a standard indication of time to both passengers and railway staff. A railway station will often have several station clocks. They can be found in a clock tower, in the booking hall or office, on the concourse, inside a train shed, on or facing the station platforms, or elsewhere.
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The design of station clocks in Europe was formerly quite diverse. Today, the majority of them are derived from the Swiss railway clock designed by Hans Hilfiker, a Swiss engineer, in 1944 when he was an employee of the Swiss Federal Railways. In 1953, Hilfiker added a red second hand to its design in the shape of a railway guard's signaling disc. The technical implementation of the railway clock, the central synchronization by a master clock, was engineered together with Mobatime, a clock manufacturer still producing the Swiss railway clock as well as the German railway clock besides many others. Modern European station standard station clock designs have a white clock face that is illuminated in the dark, bar shaped black coloured marks or scales, but no numbers, at the periphery of the clock face dial, and bar-shaped hour and minute hands, also coloured black. The second hand on these standard designs is a thin bar, thickened or fitted with a disc at the peripheral end, and often coloured red. Such clock designs are easily legible from a distance.
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Examples
• Illustration — King's Cross, London • Illustration — Hamburg Hauptbahnhof • Illustration — Gare de Lyon, Paris • Illustration — Waterloo, London • Illustration — Round face, with curved pointers. • Illustration — Square face, with straight edged pointers. • Illustration — Modern German station clock next to split-flap display board. • Illustration — Customised design (Heidelberg Hbf) • Illustration — Aarau station clock with a 9 m diameter • Illustration — Swiss railway clock, the "mother" of the modern railway clocks • Illustration — Belgium • Illustration — Classic German DB station clock • Illustration — Dutch NS station clock • Illustration — Spanish Renfe station clock
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