FOOTNOTE ONE

All decks and, where necessary, Department sections were clearly signposted outside all turbolift exits. Passenger-related sections were also signposted as were any essential services such as Transporter Rooms and Sick Bays. Of course all the usual health/safety/emergency/life raft signage was also present where necessary throughout the ship.

As a passenger liner, most fare paying customers were expected to locate and travel to most of their destinations via turbolift or travelcar, or otherwise to go via foot employing the b-line programme, although it wasn’t unknown for some to prefer to stop and ask crew along their way - and all crew were expected to be familiar with all the places on the ship and the best way to navigate there from anywhere on the vessel.

Most of the main thoroughfares and essential department sections became known to passengers pretty quickly, along with all the main recreation and entertainment sections on the ship. There were also many common routes which became familiar early on. As a result much of the ship, particularly areas where passengers were not expected to be, tended to be either signposted only using the grid reference method or were not signposted at all.

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