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Old February 16th 09, 11:48 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Woolwich DLR and early re-opening of Tower Gateway

On 16 Feb, 09:30, Patrick Osborne wrote:
On 15 Feb, 16:25, MIG wrote:

Although presumably the computer problem resulting in randomly
changing information on the platforms also affects the Web version?


Interesting to hear about computer problems affecting platform
information. *I was at Lewisham DLR at about half past two yesterday.
Train sitting in one platform, platform display saying "Stratford - 11
minutes". *Empty second platform with display saying "Bank - 5 mins".
Everyone was waiting on the platform for the earlier train to come in,
when the train already there closed its doors and left, and the
display changed to "Stratford - 8 minutes". *A platform full of very
annoyed customers, myself included!

Is this a long-standing problem? *I don't use the DLR that much.

Patrick


Quite a few weeks now. There's a bit of an explanation here
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk....320c66ad?hl=en

Although there's been a much longer-standing problem at some places,
where the display simply freezes (sometimes for days) while the clock
keeps working, suggesting that it's up and running, but the
information never changes.