This morning whilst waiting in queue of trains from Clapham Junction to Balham, I noticed on the (Class 455) saloon PIDs the following message (roughly, from memory):
New: Delays to London bound services due to a passenger taken ill at Clapham Junction, stopping services to London Victoria may not call at Wandsworth common or Battersea Park 14/03 0830
I was wondering, is this message automatically triggered from some centralised source (like Control), or does the driver manually input it?
Also, is this a new thing, or a seldom used feature put into use today?
I have not seen a message like this before, and I always value up-to-date service messages like these (I think they are pretty valuable at least), so I was just curious as to its origin.
New: Delays to London bound services due to a passenger taken ill at Clapham Junction, stopping services to London Victoria may not call at Wandsworth common or Battersea Park 14/03 0830
I was wondering, is this message automatically triggered from some centralised source (like Control), or does the driver manually input it?
Also, is this a new thing, or a seldom used feature put into use today?
I have not seen a message like this before, and I always value up-to-date service messages like these (I think they are pretty valuable at least), so I was just curious as to its origin.