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[email protected] · October 26th 15, 05:26 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(David Cantrell) wrote:

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 08:47:34PM +0100, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2015\10\23 17:17, wrote:
In article , (Basil
Jet) wrote:
I travelled on the Gospel Oak - Barking line earlier in the week, and
was annoyed by the fact that half of one of the windows was taken up
by a panel of some sort. Later I realised that this was an electronic
destination display ...
I'm surprised you've not noticed the same on all the Electrostars and
Turbostars as well as the Desiros, but not on the S stock.
I did notice that the S stock have a tidy sign above the door,
which is where I'd put it.

The Electrostar and Turbostar are 1990s designs, and AFAIK they didn't
have those side-mounted displays when they first entered service.
They've since been added, but when you add something to an existing
design then you have fewer cost-effective options of where to add it
than if it had been designed-in in the first place.

They may not have been in the original designs but I don't think any (apart
maybe from the original Chiltern units) were delivered without them. And the
Desiros have no excuses.

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Colin Rosenstiel