absolutelymilk
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Britain unifies passenger information systems
I hadn't realised that there wasn't already one single system for this, why has it taken so long? And I presume the launch went smoothly?
A £9m project to replace 66 separate passenger information systems with one national system called Darwin was launched across the British railway network on June 28.
Darwin feeds live train information to station screens and online channels, including the National Rail app, providing real-time arrival and departure predictions, platform numbers, delay estimates, schedule changes and cancellations. Darwin takes feeds directly from every train operator's customer information system, combining it with train location data provided by the infrastructure manager, Network Rail (NR). This ensures that passengers see the same live information whether they choose to look for it on station screens, on the internet, via an app, or by asking station staff.
I hadn't realised that there wasn't already one single system for this, why has it taken so long? And I presume the launch went smoothly?