its a UK power networks substation in London. Just had a look at a few of their documents (I’d been reading the ones about safety earthing and reducing electromagnetic interference anyway as it has an impact on how equipment at my work behaves)
It is quite possible the red paint is high grade stuff to keep the wet out and electric in (important when there is anything from 6 600 to 11 000 V the other side of the doors) and UKPN were going to paint the whole lot anyway. Stuff like this often gets done in seemingly random stages due to personnel/equipment material shortage; the folk who do the work are aware of graffiti artists and if its not destructive or offensive do have a sense of humour.
some years ago when I lived in Reading, SE England my mates did this (they had tatted a load of decommissioned traffic signals from an abandoned Marconi depot; made this joke aspect and the tallest of the lot shinned up a active signal and inserted this aspect in place of the plain green one). We did it in 1999 and it lasted until 2003 when all the signals were changed from incandescent to LEDs. The council and Marconi engineers clearly knew it was there as did cops; but I guess they all accepted anything that makes stoners pay more attention to traffic lights must improve road safety :laugh_at:
