Walter Briscoe wrote:
In message of Tue, 9 Jan 2007
08:45:26 in uk.transport.london, writes
I read somewhere I cannot remember where but they were going to put
projector adverts at tube stations? Do you know when they are doing
this and
at which tube stations?

They have them at Tottenham Court Road on the up escalator from the
Central Line. I found them very disconcerting.

That's not what he means - those are LCD displays. He is talking about
the projection of video across the track at platforms.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5076430.stm

--
Dave Arquati
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London

wrote:

BTW, I remember that there were advertisements between stations on Berlin's
U-Bahn that worked like a film. As the train passed each frame, it created
for passengers on board the illusion that there was movement in the
advertisement.

PATH (a rail system between New York and New Jersey) has (or had, not
too long ago) such an advertisement in an abandoned station at 19th
Street in Manhattan.

And the New York subway system used to have a piece of animated artwork,
called Masstransiscope, also at an abandoned station, in Brooklyn, near
the Manhattan Bridge. It was vandalized in the late 80's and the lights
were turned off then, but several months ago the lights were turned back
on (even though the exhibit is still covered in graffiti). You can see
it out of the right side of the northbound B and Q trains between DeKalb
Avenue and the bridge portal (just south of Gold Street interlocking).

More information on Masstransiscope:
http://www.akazelig.com/commlab/masstransiscope.html
--
David of Broadway
New York, NY, USA

Ian Jelf wrote:

Circular Quay Station had them in 2001, too. I hated the idea, just as
much as I hate the "on train" TV of which Central Trains seem so proud.

I don't like CT's version, but I do like the Train-Infoscreen "silent"
version that is used on Hamburg's U-Bahn. It's a bit like a Powerpoint
presentation, and isn't at all disruptive, and (making it all the more
useful) it shows the next station information as well, together with a
nice picture of the station concerned.

To get back on thread, the same thing is shown by projector at Hbf-Sued
station, and isn't at all disruptive, nor in any way unpleasant. It's
been in use since at least 1999.

Neil

In message .com, Neil
Williams writes
I don't like CT's version, but I do like the Train-Infoscreen "silent"
version that is used on Hamburg's U-Bahn. It's a bit like a Powerpoint
presentation, and isn't at all disruptive, and (making it all the more
useful) it shows the next station information as well, together with a
nice picture of the station concerned.

There was something vaguely similar to that on the RV1 bus when it was
first introduced, apparently using GPS technology and it *was* useful.
But it seemed to fall out of use after a while.

--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

wrote:

BTW, I remember that there were advertisements between stations on
Berlin's U-Bahn that worked like a film. As the train passed each
frame, it created for passengers on board the illusion that there was
movement in the advertisement.

Are you sure? That would only work if the distance travelled by the train
between two flashes of the electric lights were exactly the same as the
distance between two successive images on the wall, which seems hard to
manage even once, never mind consistently.