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Would Irish Rail RTPI display be possible on Bridge in Westland Row?

  • 08-02-2012 8:39pm
    #1
    dublinman1990
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    I've just found this page Irish Rail on FB, This FB page is called Pearse Street Station Bridge.

    This page was likely to be made from someone who lives in the Pearse Street area.

    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pearse-Street-Station-Bridge/353373861353561?sk=wall

    This idea for an RTPI display on Westland Row bridge (as I would call it), is a little wasteful IMO. Preferably, I would like to have the displays, either large or small, inside the actual building like Connolly and Heuston Station.

    Another point is that putting an electronic display on a classic Victorian bridge being also very expensive, it is also too heavy to place on it to prevent from falling down and getting broken.

    What do you think about idea yourselves, do you think it is innovative or just another waste of money?

    Any feedback is appreciated.


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  • #2
    00112984
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,600 ✭✭✭00112984


    They need to learn the correct name of the station first!


  • #3
    Terrontress
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    It would be ridiculous. How many people have smartphones which could display the same information?

    I just can't understand the advantages.

    As for the station name, I have been on trains where the driver announced Pearse Street station. Being located beside Pearse Street it will always be called that.

    I know the station is named after Padraig Pearse and not Pearse Street but I have no idea what he did other than all that 1916 nonsense. The Irish railway station naming convention is more akin to what you'd see in North Korea! Did the man even travel on the reailway in his whole life?


  • #4
    goingnowhere
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    Terrontress wrote: »
    I know the station is named after Padraig Pearse
    Wrong

    The station is not named after Padraig Pearse, its named after the Pearse brothers. The Irish name of the station clearly uses the plural form

    They have Waterloo station in London which for 10+ years was the terminus for trains from Paris...


  • #5
    Jehuty42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Jehuty42


    There are giant TV screens with RTPI information clearly visible in the ticket hall at Pearse, just take two steps into the building and tilt your head slightly, like I see hundreds of people do every day. What a ridiculous notion this "campaign" has.


  • #6
    BrianD
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    Can't see why you'd put it on the bridge when it's more valuable in the station (as is according to the above) and on the street where people use it.

    As for smartphones, not everyone has one yet and even so, I don't want to be pulling it out all the time, looking for an app, searching for a bus stop or route to find information that could be displayed in front of me.


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  • #7
    Terrontress
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    goingnowhere wrote: »
    Terrontress wrote: »
    I know the station is named after Padraig Pearse
    Wrong

    The station is not named after Padraig Pearse, its named after the Pearse brothers. The Irish name of the station clearly uses the plural form

    They have Waterloo station in London which for 10+ years was the terminus for trains from Paris...

    I had never heard of the other brothers, just Padraig. What did the others do?

    Is the street named in the singular or the plural?

    Yeah, the French weren't too happy about the Eurostar heading in to Waterloo, so I had heard. They were also very unhappy about the Abba song of the same name.


  • #8
    Terrontress
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,918 ✭✭✭Terrontress


    BrianD wrote: »
    Can't see why you'd put it on the bridge when it's more valuable in the station (as is according to the above) and on the street where people use it.

    As for smartphones, not everyone has one yet and even so, I don't want to be pulling it out all the time, looking for an app, searching for a bus stop or route to find information that could be displayed in front of me.

    Well, the smartphone idea is just an idea of the service enhancement but in any case, unless the display on the bridge were to be vast, you would need to be quite close to see the detail.

    The only way I could see it to work would be a large digital display with two figures, one for the next northbound and one for the next southbound. Each one has a different colour.

    But even then, you'd only get the benefit walking along Westland Row which is, at most, three minutes away from the ticket hall.

    Given how useless this idea is, unsightly, expensive to implement and likely to fall in to disrepair; I'm expecting Irish Rail to get cracking on it next week.


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