"Neil Williams" wrote in message
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ClogRail usually runs OK, but when things go awry, everything can go tits
up
just as badly as elsewhere.

Possibly more so. Staffing is quite low, and PIS is designed to show
particular destinations only on trains that they expect you to take to
get there.

Now you mention it, I don't think there were any platform staff even during
the day at A'dam Lelylaan, and it's very busy in the peaks, with the metro
next door, two tram routes and buses calling. There were staff at Hoofddorp
but probably because trains started their journey there.

Thus, for example, a few weekends ago I (and a group of
Explorer Scouts) wanted to go from Utrecht to Schiphol at
god-knows-what in the morning during engineering works. The ICs that'd
normally ply that route were off, and so the Stoptrein was the only
choice (replacement buses didn't start until later in the day). Its
Solari display didn't mention Schiphol despite my information saying
that it was going there. At the next station, served only by the
Stoptrein, it did.

Yes, they'd expect you to catch an IC - would that be one of the Koploper
worked ones that terminate at Schiphol?

The Stoptrein would be presumably marked for somewhere like Hilversum or
Duivendrecht perhaps (sorry anyone if I got the route wrong, this is from
memory). I think this is the one that carries on to den Haag HS and beyond.

One would normally put this down to a limitation of the Solari display
which makes it impractical to change it for engineering work purposes,
but the newer matrix displays that are appearing suffer the same
problem, as they've just implemented the old format using those.

The advantage of new technology is that you can do things that you couldn't
with old technology (but may not be arsed so to do).

--
Tim

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