Quote Originally Posted by wormspeaker View Post
It seems to me that the wires would be on the same side of the rails as the building, since the telegraph machine would need access to the wires. If the building does not have a telegraph office then I guess that it would not be the case though.
Excellent point. (sometimes the obvious avoids us!)

And with the wires, telegraph lines were always bare copper (sometimes shellacked) so they should either be copper coloured or have a green/grey patina.

-Rob A>