REGARDING the platform clocks dismantled from Blackburn railway station and put in store, the mechanism was housed within the building on which the clocks were sited, with a shaft going through the wall to the clock faces . There is very little in the way of works within the clocks themselves.
As the powers that be are reluctant to resite the clocks, I would suggest that cost of resiting is the problem, as they have survived the weather for near 100 years.
In later years, if my memory is correct, the clocks were modernised from mechanical to electric power, not like the station-front clock.
J HOLLAND (Mr) (ex British Railways), Pringle Street, Blackburn.
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