Roland Perry wrote:

There's something about the current railway management or techies that
is in love with scrolling. You wouldn't need to scroll most of the
messages on the Kings Cross main departure board if there was a very
limited amount of abbreviation in the messages.

....or a very slightly bigger display, which I'm sure would be preferable
for accessibility reasons.
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