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

["Jonathan Boles" <mousewithglasses@mail.com>]

Oh no! Hijacked!

Michael Kurkowski <mk@netstra.com.au> wrote in article
<8F3FB2BE0telstraNews@vic.news.telstra.net>...
> 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
>