Re: [NSW] CityRail's "Long Line Announcements"

[Michael Kurkowski <mk@netstra.com.au>]

Jonathan Lau <jonlau@ozemail.com.au> said:

>In Melbourne, their stations have a point where you press a button and
>the automated recording tells you next train info.

Further to this, there is also an automatic announcement over the station's 
PA announcing along the lines of "Good afternoon passengers, the next train 
to depart from platform 1 will be the 4:36 Flinders Street, stopping all 
stations to Flinders Street, via the city loop. The next train to depart 
from platform 1 will be the 4:36 Flinders Street, stopping all stations to 
Flinders Street, via the city loop". The announcements are run from a 
system known as "PRIDE" and consoles for this are located in (most?) 
premium stations. The automatic announcement is presumably set off by the 
track curcuit, and plays the train that is queued in the PRIDE system. It's 
a very effective system, maybe Cityrail should take another good example 
from us Victorians.

Regards

Michael