London Banter - View Single Post - Platform indicators at north end of picc finally working

Someone Somewhere · October 24th 16, 04:35 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 24/10/2016 15:43, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2016\10\24 09:41, d wrote:
It only took them 20 years to get the descibers to actually give the time
until the next train from cockfosters instead of no indication at all
until
1 minute before a train showed up. Obviously all their rocket
scientists were
busy elsewhere.

The software is poorly specified. At Aldgate East eastbound you can hear
the trains coming a few seconds after they appear on the display. Since
most people are not going past Barking, most people don't care if the
next train is a H&C or a District, but it would be nice to know if some
sort of train was coming in the next fifteen minutes.

It would be even nicer for Aldgate East westbound, particularly when
heading for e.g. Angel...