Re: Passenger Information Displays

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

David Proctor wrote:

> I believe that the scheduled departure time should be the time displayed, as
> well as the estimated time (in minutes) until the arrival of the service.
> The practice of some CityRail stations (Granville is notorious for it) of
> amending the departure time to the expected departure time sucks. I arrived
> at Granville to catch a Blue Mountains train one day, and the indicator said
> the departure time was 10.45 - it was 10.36 at the time. I left the station
> and went to the shop - the train came and went while I was gone - It was
> actually the 10.25 running 20mins late, although it had picked up 6 minutes
> time, and left at 10.39. I was not happy, and the station staff soon found
> out about it.

The station staff have nothing whatsoever to do with the passenger information
at Granville.  It is all run from the signal box.  Abusing the station staff
will not be of any help.

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David Johnson
CityRail Guard
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