"Tristán White" wrote in message
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In the month now I have been using Plaistow station every morning, I don't
think I have seen it ONCE announce the arrival of a train.

Oh no! How can the system operate at ALL if Plaistow is without dot-matrix
information screens! NOOOOO!!!

What's the point of wasting electricity and failing to announce the
arrival
of the next train.

What's the point in fixing it for 5 people, 1 of which seems to think they
deserve everything?

Even if it was just a notice to say how many minutes, without announcing
whether it was a District or a H&C line, would be something. But instead
it
just says nothing.

Because implementing a stop-gap solution like that would cost a lot of
money, which TfL is chastised for if it tries to raise.

But why? Surely in this day and age, it's all computerised? Obviously
there's not some bod with a radio in a shed beside the tracks in East Ham
saying "Hi guys, yep, there's a train leaving just now so it should be
with
you in three and, wait a minute, yep it has green coloured things to hang
on to, it's a District, I repeat, a District, over and out."

Yes - the computers DO know where all the trains are. The bit that's not
working in Plaistow is the part that connects that data to the screens. So
perhaps you should fine-tune your rant.

Theres a computer. So why are these things not linked up? They've got it
working at other stations so why don't they just pick up the feed from, I
don't know, Mile End, and then add VALUE=VALUE+5 to it or something?

Because that's not how computers or trains work, which would result in a
service even less useful than no service at all.

Perhaps they really don't know in some stations. Perhaps they're utterly
clueless when a next train is coming. Which scares the pants off me, to be
honest. But let's assume a modicum of knowledge he if they know, and
they MUST know, someone MUST know in a station when the next train is due
and what it is, then bloody TELL US. Because it's a pain in the arse.

So you want to waste staff time by having them tell you where the next train
is going, and when it will arrive? Do you know how much THAT costs? (Hint:
a ****load more than a dot-matrix display). Brilliant.

In the meantime, they're on day and night, wasting electricity (that we're
paying for, one way or another) and doing jack diddly.

Do you know how much electricity those signs use? Do you know how much
electricity those TRAINS use? If the answer to either is "no", you're
speaking out of your ass.