LNW-GW Joint
Veteran Member
I passed through Manchester Piccadilly station today for the first time in 19 months, and was surprised to find a new PIS system for the P13/14 concourse/lounge.
Out has gone the spidery horizontal dot-matrix scrolling mess that was only capable of showing the next two trains on each platform.
In has come a much larger vertical display showing more incoming trains, and colour coded for their arrival.
This is clearly an attempt to manage the crowds waiting in the open (often in the wind and rain) on P13/14, aiming at keeping them in the concourse area until the appropriate time for boarding.
Evidently Red means "Wait", Blue means "Prepare" and Green means "Go".
I've not seen anything like that before, anywhere.
Is it unique within the NR estate?
I think it is a very clever way of both improving the quality of passenger information, and in helping to manage crowding on the platforms.
Full marks to Network Rail.
Out has gone the spidery horizontal dot-matrix scrolling mess that was only capable of showing the next two trains on each platform.
In has come a much larger vertical display showing more incoming trains, and colour coded for their arrival.
This is clearly an attempt to manage the crowds waiting in the open (often in the wind and rain) on P13/14, aiming at keeping them in the concourse area until the appropriate time for boarding.
Evidently Red means "Wait", Blue means "Prepare" and Green means "Go".
I've not seen anything like that before, anywhere.
Is it unique within the NR estate?
I think it is a very clever way of both improving the quality of passenger information, and in helping to manage crowding on the platforms.
Full marks to Network Rail.