Cork/Cobh services are operating normally, but the line to Midleton is currently closed, as attempts to recover a body from a difficult location on the shoreline proceed.
I think the contrasting door thing is more about partially-sighted passengers finding the doors than the emergency services.
My local hospital has Braille repeats of the many signs' wordings in the bottom right hand corner of each one - handy, if the blind person can actually find the sign....
As far as I've ever seen any 00 or H0 loco will run anywhere that any other would - just subject to being DC or DCC.
You can have physical clearance issues - even at a smaller scale, some H0 stuff can be very large.
Very sad, indeed - back when presenters were expected to really know about things. Both he and Raymond Baxter will never be equalled.
It is a bygone time...
Certainly.
OTC marching in the playground in the dinner hour, etc...
Lindsay Anderson's film If.... is almost a documentary of the madhouses that these places were..
[video=youtube;PmoHv8Mf_-o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmoHv8Mf_-o