Platform Display Errors

Whistler40145 · 12 Oct 2011

Has anyone ever noticed Platform Display Monitors showing incorrect stations?

e.g. Preston Platform 4 showing next departure for Plymouth, calling at Wigan North Western, Warrington Bank Quay, Crewe, Milton Keynes Central, Watford Junction & London Euston!

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causton · 12 Oct 2011

No

PS: If you can't see the error, check out the rear coaches of the 16:32!

table38 · 12 Oct 2011

Wrong, but perhaps understandably:

WatcherZero · 12 Oct 2011

Saw one last week, something along the line of:

'The following is an important safety announcement....'
Then two pages on the next train and what stops it was calling at.

Later on saw it being displayed normally at another station so I thought to myself perhaps the boards could only display three pages of information and a two page train broke the announcement.

table38 · 12 Oct 2011

That reminds me, sat at Bridlington the other day, the bottom line of the display kept saying:

Passengers should be aware

then that was it!

valenta · 12 Oct 2011

table38 said:
That reminds me, sat at Bridlington the other day, the bottom line of the display kept saying:

Passengers should be aware

then that was it!

That sounds ominous! :lol:

Tomonthetrain · 13 Oct 2011

1942 pretendo service displayed as normal at Coventry but with "mark iii set" added on the on the board. someone the're is a enthusiast!

PR1Berske · 13 Oct 2011

table38 said:
That reminds me, sat at Bridlington the other day, the bottom line of the display kept saying:

Passengers should be aware

then that was it!

I've seen "Passengers should be aware" at Leyland and a couple of others. It should, of course, be "...train doors are closed 30 seconds before departure" but the programing has clearly been borked.

pemma · 13 Oct 2011

table38 said:
Wrong, but perhaps understandably:

Why've they spelt Victoria wrong then?
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PR1Berske said:
I've seen "Passengers should be aware" at Leyland and a couple of others. It should, of course, be "...train doors are closed 30 seconds before departure" but the programing has clearly been borked.

Altrincham, Stockport and all stations on the Bolton-Preston line with LED displays show that.

table38 · 13 Oct 2011

jcollins said:
Why've they spelt Victoria wrong then?

Tsk, I hadn't even noticed that after nearly three years :oops:

Yew · 13 Oct 2011

The display at Mansfield woodhouse doesnt display anything corectly on the top line

Harlesden · 13 Oct 2011

Although I can't recall the exact wording, the display at Harlesden occasionally shows

The approaching train is a passing train
Please stand clear of the platform edge

The approaching train actually stops normally for passengers to alight and board

ess · 13 Oct 2011

causton said:
No

PS: If you can't see the error, check out the rear coaches of the 16:32!

So where is LTCEADL really?

Lampshade · 13 Oct 2011

ess said:
So where is LTCEADL really?

Letchworth Arrival/Departure Line for the carriage servicing depot. Basically the rear carriages are running ECS from Letchworth

Boothby97 · 13 Oct 2011

Barnetby Platform 1/4 (one closest to exit) on saturday morning and sunday afternoon said "If you need assistance boarding the train, please ask the help point". Bearing in mind on saturday there was a coal train and sunday nothing, I don't see you would need help boarding the train.

NIMBUS · 13 Oct 2011

How about this (at Edinburgh Waverley)?

P19920824008 DepartureBoard EdinburghWaverley.jpg

Eagle · 13 Oct 2011

NIMBUS said:
How about this (at Edinburgh Waverley)?

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I've never heard of stations called "Birmingham" and "Bristol" before...

317666 · 13 Oct 2011

Some of the platform display boards at the south end of the WAML (stations such as Enfield Lock and the up platform at Tottenham Hale) don't scroll the delay reason if a train is late. So it'll say something like "Delayed due to a" and that's it.

Temple Meads · 13 Oct 2011

At Westbury, the approaching train, not scheduled to stop announcement is often played when an empty unit or a terminated train has been at the platform for over 5 minutes!

317666 · 13 Oct 2011

Temple Meads said:
At Westbury, the approaching train, not scheduled to stop announcement is often played when an empty unit or a terminated train has been at the platform for over 5 minutes!

On that note, the old announcement system at Knebworth was 2 minutes behind. It would say "Stand well away from the edge" about a minute after a fast train had gone through, then say "Platform 1 for the" as the train was pulling out :lol:

Ivo · 13 Oct 2011

I have previously seen one of the display units at Bath Spa showing the 16:07 to Weymouth as the next train... at 16:40. When it was on time.

More amusing however is that I have previously seen a 158 (so a train, not a platform) showing its destination as Ashby-de-la-Zouch! As if that's not bad enough (given Ashby's distinct lack of a station), consider the fact that this was at Salisbury...

causton · 13 Oct 2011

317666 said:
On that note, the old announcement system at Knebworth was 2 minutes behind. It would say "Stand well away from the edge" about a minute after a fast train had gone through, then say "Platform 1 for the" as the train was pulling out

Well, Brookmans Park needs to do the announcements just a couple of seconds earlier. It's always "from the edge of platfo-WHOOOOOOSH!"

Earlier, 2 trains went through the fast platforms at the same time, and 2 calling trains stopped on the slow platforms at the same time as that! The announcement system played the second 'stand well back...' announcements as I pulled out of the station on one of the stopped trains. And then heard 'Platform 4 for...'! Silly lack of zoning :P

blakey1152 · 15 Oct 2011

317666 said:
On that note, the old announcement system at Knebworth was 2 minutes behind. It would say "Stand well away from the edge" about a minute after a fast train had gone through, then say "Platform 1 for the" as the train was pulling out

Slade Green station has the same thing..the fast train will go steaming through and after its gone....."Stand well away from the edge of platform 1 - this train is not for customer use" - Bit late!!!

Chris

table38 · 16 Oct 2011

At Crewe yesterday, an announcement:

Platform 5 for the 09:01 to Birmingham New Street, calling at Wolverhampton only

Boothby97 · 16 Oct 2011

table38 said:
At Crewe yesterday, an announcement:

It is running next week as well, in fact when I stand at Stafford on a Tuesday regularly a voyager will pass through with the destination Birmingham New Street.
Glasgow Central to Birmingham New Street services call at Wolverhampton only between CRE and BHM.

imagination · 16 Oct 2011

Last week at Dyce there was some ECS standing on platform 1 waiting for the train I was catching from platform 2. However, the station announcement insisted on saying on platform 2 that the next train was not scheduled to stop, and then changed it to say that it was running to Inverness, non-stop (it was actually going to Edinburgh).

rail-britain · 16 Oct 2011

Eagle said:
I've never heard of stations called "Birmingham" and "Bristol" before...

Due to lack of space on the old Solari board many of the long distance station names were shortened but appeared correctly on the platform screen, but it was very common for the wrong station cards to appear on the main solari board

Eagle · 16 Oct 2011

rail-britain said:
Due to lack of space on the old Solari board many of the long distance station names were shortened but appeared correctly on the platform screen, but it was very common for the wrong station cards to appear on the main solari board

And I'm guessing not every station all the way to Penzance would have appeared? Cheltenham's missing for a start...

rail-britain · 16 Oct 2011

Eagle said:
And I'm guessing not every station all the way to Penzance would have appeared? Cheltenham's missing for a start...

Yes, every station was listed on Edinburgh - Penzance (at the time it was via Carstairs and Crewe), Edinburgh - Plymouth and the Aberdeen - Plymouth, if the train called at those stations, but not always in the order the train called at those stations
However the names were shortened (examples include Cheltenham, Bristol, Newark)
One unusual inclusion was the London Paddington, which included a cartoon picture of Paddington bear!

The reason only Birmingham and Bristol appear on this card is these were the two stopping points of the Edinburgh / Glasgow - Plymouth sleeper

davelew99 · 24 Oct 2011

Not a platform display error -

Yesterday i was travelling to liverpool lime street and due to engineering works between hooton and chester, as we passed James St. the on board display changed to "this is the merseyrail service to hooton" - no problem. It then proceeded to say "the next station is Hamilton Sq" (which is 4 stations after our next one, which was Moorfields).

It then proceeded to be ahead as we passed each stop (so Moorfields was announced as Hamilton Sq and Lime St announced as Birkenhead Central).

However, what really amused me was that as we approached Lime St the guard announced the station manually (which happens most of the time as they give additional information) but he said "The next station is liverpool lime street, change here for InterCity and Regional Rail services".

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