Recliner wrote:
"James Farrar" wrote in message


Hammersmith (Picc westbound) is similar to this. It also annoys me
that it lists the first train, plus the next train to a different
destination. "1. Heathrow 1 min / Next train to Northfields in 5 min"
is not helpful if you're trying to go to Rayners Lane. And in any
case, the next train to Northfields is in 1 min.

I wonder why Hammersmith has this unusual system? As you say, it's
less useful (if pedantically more accurate) than the usual listings
of the next three trains. Was it an experiment that failed, and so
wasn't repeated?

In the case descibed the system fails to be useful, but if you have three
trains to Heathrow followed by a Rayners train, the Hammersmith system is
certainly more useful than LU's idiotic standard of showing the next three
trains, or worse, showing the next two trains soldly and the third and
fourth trains alternately. LU seem incapable of asking themselves "What do
passengers want to know?" and providing it.