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Old December 31st 06, 02:06 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Wembley Park platforms 5 and 6

Tristán White wrote:
What a mess. How easy would it be to put a display between platforms 5 and
6 giving the times of the next trains so you could make a decision, with
time? Or to make sure the display on platform 6 is accurate. Or better
still try and find a way to get ALL trains to arrive at platform 5 (and
leave platform 6 just for those fast ones that don't stop at Wembley Park).
Grrrr.


Platform 6 isn't meant to be used that often by the Met Line; under
normal circumstances, you're almost always better off sticking with
Platform 5. A former Met driver once said that in the old days when the
fast Amersham services non-stopped Wembley Park, they would run through
platforms 1 and 6 at line speed; the stopping services would always use
platforms 2 and 5.

That said, a display at the top of the stairs to the platforms
themselves would be nice, but I think there are displays elsewhere in
the station that show the same thing. There is also the fact that train
information from the Harrow SB train describer is a bit thin; if/when a
new TD is built for trains exiting the Harrow area to the south, the
displays will have something more useful to show.