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[email protected] · June 19th 14, 09:23 PM posted to cam.transport,uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 18:59:14 on Thu, 19 Jun
2014, Roland Perry remarked:
After trying to rationalise Network Rail's management of the platform
announcements at Kings Cross, this evening they changed the platform
for the 18.44 Kings Lynn service from 10 to 1 with six minutes notice.

It occurs to me - having looked at the normal pattern of trains, plus
the fact a different train was in platform 10 at the time, and the
way they tannoyed a retraction of the screen announcement of platform
10 about a minute later - that the 10/1 thing here was a manual typo.

Which means the massive departure board is *not automated*, not even
at the level of "is it yet time to manually reveal the automatic
information that this train is destined to depart from platform 1".

You need to know when they committed the incoming Downham Market train to
platform 1. It arrived at 18:39 so maybe the 6 minutes was all the notice
there was.

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Colin Rosenstiel