Barry Salter wrote:
Presumably though the new trains will all have in-car displays and automatic
announcements about the next station so there shouldn't be any need to look
out of the window to see where you are.

This relies on the Train Operator having set up the PIS correctly and
said PIS not sh*tting itself en route and deciding the train's going the
other way. [1]

Not on the Vic it doesn't - the PIS is linked to the ATO, rather than
relying on button-pushing.

I don't think I've ever been on a Vic train where the announcements
have gone wrong (and barely ever one where they've been dead), and I've
been commuting daily on the Vic for the last two years. I agree this
can vary - I've heard things go wrong on the District, and the one on
the Picc is pretty much never in service.

Plus people actually like to be able to look out of the windows, at
least on the surface sections that make up over 50% of the LU network.

Not on the Vic it doesn't - unless people are stowing away on
out-of-service trains to Northumberland Park...

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