In message , Recliner
writes

My main gripe with the Piccadilly Line is the lack of next train
indicators out at North Ealing, a station I've used a lot this year. I
like to know when the next train will be and you get spoiled a bit
on the Central Line!

My local station (a bit further out) does have indicators, but they
still aren't connected, so they don't tell you anything useful. I don't
know why they installed indicators so long before the systems to support
them would be available -- no doubt something to do with PPP
commitments.

Stations being refurbished have them specified as part of the refurb so
that they are ready for the resignalling (the same stuff that the
Jubilee and Northern are getting, once they go live) which we're due to
get around 2015.

I understand that funding for some kind of 'follower' system (don't ask,
as I don't know what it is, but that's what it was called in the
corporate memo we got) has recently been authorised as a short term
measure so I expect them to burst into life in the next year or so.
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