You travel from a station where the location/destination of a train is that predictable ? Wow. I'm jealous.
if you'd managed to find it in time, the destination might not have been displayed on the front, nor on LED scrollers inside
Something I observed recently when catching trains late at night, when the announcing/updating of screens in Reading is even more slapdash:
Quite often it's necessary to hop inside the train and read the LED scroller to check where it's calling[*]. Now, suppose you want to know whether the train stops at, say Culham - which is such a small station that most of the stopping trains don't even bother.
In them old days, you looked at the piece of paper, saw Culham listed, hopped aboard. Now you have to wait for the LED scroller to choose to vouchsafe this information. Having experimentally tried this a few times, the scroller usually reminds me to take my luggage with me when I leave, tells me where safety information is displayed, and welcomes me to Thames trains, before painstakingly ambling through the list of stops. 2 out of 3 times I've checked this, the train has pulled away before it's got to the point in the list where Culham would be mentioned....
[*] Read the timetables, you say ? I'm not making that mistake again.
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Date: 2002-12-09 03:33 am (UTC)if you'd managed to find it in time, the destination might not have been displayed on the front, nor on LED scrollers inside
Something I observed recently when catching trains late at night, when the announcing/updating of screens in Reading is even more slapdash:
Quite often it's necessary to hop inside the train and read the LED scroller to check where it's calling[*]. Now, suppose you want to know whether the train stops at, say Culham - which is such a small station that most of the stopping trains don't even bother.
In them old days, you looked at the piece of paper, saw Culham listed, hopped aboard. Now you have to wait for the LED scroller to choose to vouchsafe this information. Having experimentally tried this a few times, the scroller usually reminds me to take my luggage with me when I leave, tells me where safety information is displayed, and welcomes me to Thames trains, before painstakingly ambling through the list of stops. 2 out of 3 times I've checked this, the train has pulled away before it's got to the point in the list where Culham would be mentioned....
[*] Read the timetables, you say ? I'm not making that mistake again.