Re: King Cross indicator boards

[craigd@lios.apana.org.au (C. Dewick)]

In <37dc7f4d@news.syd.fl.net.au> Shaun Hopkins <wallaby@jander.fl.net.au> writes:

>AFAIK the telemetry for those things and a lot of the peripherals were
>built with porprietary gear from Westinghouse which would all be now out
>of production.  Spares were always hideously expensive.  We rebuilt half
>the mimic panels ourselves when they died at a tiny fraction of the cost
>quoted by Westinghouse.(actually apprentices built them :-))

And now all the PID's (Passenger Information Displays) on the CBD stations
(plus ESR and probably up to North Sydney as well as major stations on the
route to Olympic Saleyards Park) are about to be replaced with plasma
display systems based on the success of the ones installed at Martin Place.
The tender advertisement was in yesterday's SMH.

Regards,

Craig.
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