On 28 Aug, 21:41, Luap wrote:
On Aug 28, 8:00*pm, Mizter T wrote:





On Aug 28, 7:11*pm, " wrote:

Is there much chance that the TfL "live departure board" information
will at some point be improved to lessen the incidence of specific
displays defaulting to nondescript destinations such as "Unknown",
"District Line", "Special", "Awaiting confirmation" etc.? *I realise
that there will be some occasions where at a given time the
destination of a given train might be indeterminate but not to the
extent that the boards would sometimes have us believe. On other
occasions the destination display can go to the opposite extreme of
depicting locations in terms of the "road number" of the particular
sidings in which the train will berth following its last set-down
point. A happy medium would be a preferred option.

I'm just curious as to how many genuine punters make use of the LU
live departure boards, given the frequent service on many parts of the
network?

Quite a lot, it's the quickest and most reliable way of seeing if your
line is disrupted before setting off for the station.

I'd be happy if the District Line ever displayed any information at
all on the platforms. As far as I know it never yet has done, at
least not less than a minute before a train arrives. Maybe it's
repeatedly fixed and breaks down again on the occasions when I stray
that way and it's not closed for engineering works.

Today was a day when there was no engineering work on the section of
the District that I was planning to use and, surprise surprise,
absolutely zero information on the platforms. In this case, not even
displaying the expected arrival of the train whose headlights are
already in sight.

One has to wonder why District Line stations are part of any programme
to install expensive electronic equipment on the platforms, when the
will to create any information to display on them continues to be
lacking.