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Re: Passenger Information Displays

To: ausrail@railpage.org.au
Subject: Re: Passenger Information Displays
From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 23:20:04 +1100
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Peter MacKenzie wrote:

> g) The ones I have most experience of are Granville and Parramatta and
> they appear to be operated in different manners. (SB vs Station Staff?)

Granville = SB  Parramatta = Station Staff

>  I rarely trust Parramatta
> and travel to Granville when services seem to be in disarray, their
> advice quite often means a needless delay of upto 30 minutes or more.

Granville has the SPI operator sitting next to the signaller, so information is very
easy to pass on.

> i) When the PID's are operated by the Signal Box, who operates the
> recorded pa as I have also seen/heard these contradicting each other.

In Blacktown signal box, they are operated from the same computer, and the
announcements are triggered by track circuits.

--
David Johnson
CityRail Guard
trainman@ozemail.com.au
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/

References:
- Passenger Information Displays
  - From: Alex Borodin <alex.borodin@qrail.com.au>
- Re: Passenger Information Displays
  - From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>
- Re: Passenger Information Displays
  - From: Peter MacKenzie <SpamFree@bigpond.com>

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