Re: Passenger Information Displays

[ajwright@ozemail.com.au (Ashley Wright)]

On Fri, 27 Feb 1998 20:17:53 +1100, David Johnson
<trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>David Proctor wrote:
>

>
>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.
>

  At Parramatta today I (and many other people) were caught out by an
interesting problem with the indicator boards. On platform 3 the
western board was showing basicaly and all stations service to
Berowra, but the eastern sign was showing the next train (at the same
time) as being an express to Gordon (I think). The recorded voice
anouncment was calling the all stations service. However when the
train arrived and people boarded the gaurd told people to ignore the
station announcement and the train was the express. As I was going to
central I didn't care, however there were a number of people that got
off at Granville and went to sit down for the next (presumably all
stations) service!!

  Now being a tech of sorts I would have thought that all signs on the
one platform (being identical) would have been feed with the same info
not different like at Paramatta.

  Now as for the orginal post: What I need is what the next service
is, stopping pattern (listed in detail), current time, and scheduled
time due and actual time due (countdown like in Sydney is good). On
the last point the time for arrival should include any late running
and not be just a countdown till scheduled arrival time.

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