"Bearded" wrote in message
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News [as delivered by Paul C from the TfL minutes and reports} that

- Initial patronage levels on DLR Woolwich extension are encouraging.

and

- target date for Tower Gateway DLR reopening is 15 Feb 2009!

... is good news indeed for us here in Woolwich and environs.

Fingers crossed for Tower Gateway - in the best DLR tradition of
projects completed ahead of schedule.

Judging by the live departure boards Tower Gateway has not reopened
today.

Peter Smyth

On Feb 15, 12:14*pm, "Peter Smyth" wrote:
"Bearded" wrote in message

...

News [as delivered by Paul C from the TfL minutes and reports} that

- Initial patronage levels on DLR Woolwich extension are encouraging.

and

- target date for Tower Gateway DLR reopening is 15 Feb 2009!

... is good news indeed for us here in Woolwich and environs.

Fingers crossed for *Tower Gateway - in the best DLR tradition of
projects completed ahead of schedule.

Judging by the live departure boards Tower Gateway has not reopened
today.

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

On 15 Feb, 16:25, MIG wrote:

On Feb 15, 12:14 pm, "Peter Smyth" wrote:

(snip)

Judging by the live departure boards Tower Gateway has not reopened
today.

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

Ha! Dunno, but I'd presume so.

By the by, here's some links to the DLR live departure board (aka DLR Daisy)
for Tower Gateway:

*
http://dlr-scripts.appius.com/dlr/sc...r.asp?code=tog
* http://dlr-scripts.appius.com/lib/re....asp?daisy=tog

* http://www.dlrdaisy.co.uk/daisy/tog/tog07pid.htm
* http://www.dlrdaisy.co.uk/daisy/tog/tog15pid.htm

I say some links because there's several! The first link just redirects to
the second link, so the first can perhaps be forgotten about. The second
then redirects to either the third or the fourth (it's redirecting to the
latter, the 'tog15pid' one, at the moment).

Playing around with the live departure board for Shadwell, if one changes
the the numbers that prefix the 'pid' bit in the URL string it appears to
bring up out of date information - so perhaps best to use one of the
redirect URLs if you want up to date and accurate info (FSVO up to date and
accurate, the way the displays are behaving on the DLR at the mo!). Here's
the two different types of redirect URLs for the Shadwell live departure
board:

*
http://dlr-scripts.appius.com/dlr/sc...r.asp?code=sha
* http://dlr-scripts.appius.com/lib/re....asp?daisy=sha

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

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.