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Departure hoards at interchange stations

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  • 07-04-2019 8:41pm
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    Curb Your Enthusiasm
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    It always seemed odd to me that Irish Rail wouldn't have departure boards or info boards at large interchange stations such as Limerick Junction and Mallow.

    Anyone know why this is? Seems very poor in this day and age. Lack of investment, or just little care put into the passenger experience?


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    harringtonp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭harringtonp


    Cannot answer your question but you can get a schedule based software one as shown below.

    Limerick junction should be the same but you would have to click around the station stops on the map to find the correct one. Reason detailed in a post in

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057972009


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    thomond2006
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    Could LMK Junction add them after the introduction of the new platform?


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    tabbey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭tabbey


    Broombridge still has no timetable or departure indicator either, a long time after the tram connection opened.

    If the tram platforms have tram departure signs, why can the NTA not provide them for the heavy rail platforms?


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    Jamie2k9
    Registered Users Posts: 10,673 ✭✭✭✭Jamie2k9


    All stations should have a PIS screen and information button available to passengers. Considering many stations are going to be unmanned and the part time operation of social media channels this becomes all that more important.

    Signallers know where trains are all the time, trains carry GPS so the technology is there however they continue to fail and join up the dots. For many years Sligo had no real time info past Maynooth, sometime last year this was rectified and all stations pick up live data. Why have this not happened on Tralee, Waterford, Rosslare, Westport as well has improving Galway. The only route where there are few problems is Dublin-Cork, Dundalk-Graystones.


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    road_high
    Registered Users Posts: 19,394 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    All stations should have these not just those in the GDA. Must be very confusing for tourists to rock up and no clear indication which platform or direction their train will be arriving.


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    devnull
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 11,587 Mod ✭✭✭✭devnull


    General the provision of information is terrible on platforms and on trains even when the facilities are there. I generally think that there needs to be a totally new approach to this and new suppliers of the technology.

    The last software upgrade has destroyed the PIS on the 8100. They broke something that was faultless for well over ten years when they started to put full Irish translations in and Irish first and broke pretty much the whole thing in the process.

    There was no need to alter when announcements fired or reinvent the wheel to do that they just needed to add the extra announcements. They messed with it and stuff fires at wrong time. Crashes and freezes normally at Connolly and generally is full of bugs.

    It's like someone was trying to be too clever or they generally had no idea what they were doing.


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    munchkin_utd
    Registered Users Posts: 7,847 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    Curb Your Enthusiasm wrote: »
    It always seemed odd to me that Irish Rail wouldn't have departure boards or info boards at large interchange stations such as Limerick Junction and Mallow.

    Anyone know why this is? Seems very poor in this day and age. Lack of investment, or just little care put into the passenger experience?
    do they still not have it at Mallow?

    I only ever had to change there once (must have been on a Kerry train, and changing to Cork, and about 15 years who) and there was neither any information on the platform or trains as to where you should be go. No staff either. They cant still be as inept now as then ?

    In germany (and other half organised countries) you've a yoke like this over every platform which is really helpful, not just with info on what train is coming next but where it'll stop. Only the main stations are listed, but compared to leaving the customer completely clueless, a massive help still.
    Surely something like that cant be that difficult to introduce? Sure isnt something like that on the DART for the last 20 years?

    hamburg-hauptbahnof-8307-zugzielanzeiger-ice-90643.jpg


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    dowlingm
    Registered Users Posts: 5,312 ✭✭✭dowlingm


    The NTA could definitely have a role by running information displays at entrances which not only show rail services for those entering but connecting bus services for those exiting.


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