Ken Clark wrote: > My local community is in the planning stages of revitalizing our local >train station. I was thinking, why not include a sundial as part of the >design for the passengers to look at while waiting for the train. I like >vertical declining dials because they are some what vandal proof if high >enough on the wall. >
Just to add to the list of possibilities Ken may like to know that there is an interesting dial at a railway station in the SW of England in the form of a statue of a railwayman losing leaves of a timetable in the wind. The fallen leaves are the hour markers. The forearm and hand of the man form the gnomon. Appropriately the motto (on a nearby plaque) reads: "Tempus Fugit".. Patrick
