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On 15 Feb, 16:25, MIG wrote:
Although presumably the computer problem resulting in randomly
changing information on the platforms also affects the Web version?


Interesting to hear about computer problems affecting platform
information. I was at Lewisham DLR at about half past two yesterday.
Train sitting in one platform, platform display saying "Stratford - 11
minutes". Empty second platform with display saying "Bank - 5 mins".
Everyone was waiting on the platform for the earlier train to come in,
when the train already there closed its doors and left, and the
display changed to "Stratford - 8 minutes". A platform full of very
annoyed customers, myself included!

Is this a long-standing problem? I don't use the DLR that much.

Patrick

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On 16 Feb, 09:30, Patrick Osborne wrote:
On 15 Feb, 16:25, MIG wrote:

Although presumably the computer problem resulting in randomly
changing information on the platforms also affects the Web version?


Interesting to hear about computer problems affecting platform
information. *I was at Lewisham DLR at about half past two yesterday.
Train sitting in one platform, platform display saying "Stratford - 11
minutes". *Empty second platform with display saying "Bank - 5 mins".
Everyone was waiting on the platform for the earlier train to come in,
when the train already there closed its doors and left, and the
display changed to "Stratford - 8 minutes". *A platform full of very
annoyed customers, myself included!

Is this a long-standing problem? *I don't use the DLR that much.

Patrick


Quite a few weeks now. There's a bit of an explanation here
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk....320c66ad?hl=en

Although there's been a much longer-standing problem at some places,
where the display simply freezes (sometimes for days) while the clock
keeps working, suggesting that it's up and running, but the
information never changes.
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On 12 Feb, 04:13, Bearded wrote:
News [as delivered by Paul C from the TfL minutes and reports} that

- Initial patronage levels on DLR Woolwich extension are encouraging.

and

- target date forTowerGatewayDLR reopening is 15 Feb 2009!

... is good news indeed for us here in Woolwich and environs.

Fingers crossed for *TowerGateway- in the best DLR tradition of
projects completed ahead of schedule.


Definite information being given out now that it's 2 March. Service
pattern here

http://dlr-admin.appius.com/uploads/...ster_v4_aw.pdf

Something I didn't pick up on before is this "horseshoe" platform with
separate arrival and departure. How can that work in the space? I
obviously wasn't paying attention.

Or maybe they just mean single track, out one side and in the other
side, and a concourse at one end. That must be it. For a minute I
thought it meant trains running round somehow ...


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