bb21
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I don't agree it's clear, only because you see many people screenshotting the national rail app, for example, and tweeting to SWR complaining it says arrived at Waterloo before the train has stopped (since they may be hoping to make a delay repay claim)
These people (and there are many) don't know about our understand signal blocks and how/when the system registers the train as arrived.
Similar thing in that people don't understand how congestion can occur when there's only the expected amount of trains to run, a lot of these things aren't common knowledge even if they seem pretty straight forward.
I don't quite see the irrelevance of what you are trying to say to what is under discussion in this thread. Whether something is clear or not will be subjective. I have already outlined what people can do (instead of just moaning about it) in these events, if you insist I am wrong to say the meaning is clear.
As an aside, I'm pretty sure the Wimbledon-waterloo metro has always used this system with minute countdowns which I don't find very helpful, I too much prefer the direct 'expected 15:33' and looking at the clock seeing it's '15:31:20'
London Underground have decades of research and experience in this area on a metro-style operation and the conclusion has repeatedly shown that you are very much in a minority.