Curious workings between Bristol & Bath

John R

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Re: Curious workings between Bristol & Bath

« Reply #15 on: July 28, 2012, 23:29:47 »

Keynsham has (not sure about Oldfield Park) the standard electronic next train displays, so that would have alerted pax^▸ .


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Louis94

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Re: Curious workings between Bristol & Bath

« Reply #16 on: July 28, 2012, 23:35:15 »

Quote from: John R on July 28, 2012, 23:29:47

Keynsham has (not sure about Oldfield Park) the standard electronic next train displays, so that would have alerted pax^▸ .

You been a help point with a screen? I know Oldfield Park and Keynsham both have these. You'd have to hope the passengers noticed the platform numbers were different, not sure if they flash if altered on these screens, there's certainly no noise to draw attention to a change.


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Timmer

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Re: Curious workings between Bristol & Bath

« Reply #17 on: July 29, 2012, 06:15:16 »

Oldfield Park help points don't have display screens which I could never understand when you go to the effort of replacing the previous equipment that these weren't provided. There are stations that have a fraction of the passengers that Oldfield Park has yet have display screens on their help points.


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Louis94

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Re: Curious workings between Bristol & Bath

« Reply #18 on: July 29, 2012, 11:42:20 »

Quote from: Timmer on July 29, 2012, 06:15:16

Oh right, the screen help points were funded by local councils apparently - I know the previous help point at Oldfield Park, the silver one, used to announce calling at patterns of services (when it worked), I'd imagine Oldfield Park now has a yellow button(?) on the help point which now fails to do this! No idea whether the yellow button would announce platform changes.

One example of a really poor upgrade is in Cornwall where Camborne did have a silver help point announcing calling patterns and Hayle the next station down the line had a basic help point announcing trains times/destinations only, and Hayle a station with far less users than Camborne got a screen help point installed, where as Camborne got a help point with a yellow button - so technically a downgrade in information provision, as there is no information stating the calling pattern of a train anymore.


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Timmer

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Re: Curious workings between Bristol & Bath

« Reply #19 on: July 29, 2012, 17:48:33 »

Agreed, the old W&W^▸ information points were much more informative than the new help points that don't have a PIS^▸ .


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