On Dec 9, 9:01*pm, James Farrar wrote:
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 07:41:55 -0800 (PST), MIG





wrote:
On Dec 8, 3:23*pm, John B wrote:
On Dec 8, 11:45*am, Mike Bristow wrote:

How about a panel next to the main display which reads along the lines
of *"Next train for quickest arrival at Paddington is: xx.xx plat y"
This would need to be larger than the normal display to ensure
passengers see it first, and perhaps with a footnote that other
earlier trains run but will arrive after the recommended train.

This could work really well at stations where there is one, main,
destination (eg: *at Woking, you'd pick Waterloo; at Reading, you'd
pick Paddington; and at Stratford, Liverpool Street).

Indeed, they already have these at both Waterloo and Reading.

But at a terminus, it's not so good: *There are a large number of
destinations, and finding the right one can be a pain. * *I really
dislike Manchester Picadilly station because they take this approach;
there's such a vast amount of information it can be a pain to find
the needle you want.

Agreed that the board at Picc is annoying - but the board at London
Bridge works well, despite the enormous number of destinations. The
main difference is that the London Bridge one is a single, static
rectangle, rather than a permanently scrolling triangle.

Is the London Bridge one based on first departure time or first
arrival time?

Not sure, but East Croydon has one based on first arrival time.- Hide quoted text -

Going inwards that certainly makes sense. As it would at Bromley
South, Orpington etc. I wonder if they have them?

But that's for one or two obvious destinations (Victoria, London
Bridge). It would be very complicated to have the first arrivals at
Dartford, Orpington, Ramsgate, Brighton, Barnham etc, sometimes via
different routes, shown at London Bridge.