Tristán White wrote:
But why? Surely in this day and age, it's all computerised?

The District Line assuredly is not computerised:

http://www.trainweb.org/districtdave...__centres.html

Obviously all that old equipment is embarrassing to see, but it does
work most of the time. Would you rather LUL blow millions on whatever
the latest gadget is?

someone MUST know in a station when the next train is due
and what it is, then bloody TELL US.

Why would they? It's the signallers and line controllers job to keep
track of where the trains are.

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

Installing DMIs is a standard part of station refurbishment, and doing
it now saves disruption later. No idea why they're switched on though.

peter wrote:
Four more years to cure a simple problem, of their own making! How
difficult can it be to connect the indicators to the signals?

Very. And would you really want them to spend money and waste
engineering resources (and possibly shut down the line for several
days) making connections to equipment that's going to be ripped out in
4 years?

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