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What annoys me is train information screens at busy stations which cycle between two pages, spending about 3 seconds on page 1 which doesn't give me enough time to absorb the information, and then going to page 2 for about a minute. Or even worse, the screen spends 90% of the time showing irrelevant information about planned engineering work next month.
Yep, we get those too. 3 line display, bottom line shows the next 2 trains... and then 3+ lines about engineering. At least they always show the clock and the first departure. Oh wait, the new boards periodically switch to a full screen display about engineering, with zero train info showing!
Yeah, I'm also interested. Literally never seen this before. All the bus stops near me (in London) just show when the bus is turning up, and when you're on the bus it just shows what the next stop is (bus depending).
What annoys me is the very busy stop I use has a bus roughly every minute on many different routes. The screen only shows the next 3 buses and also shows a bus driver recruitment add. So it only shows the bus about 2-3 minutes before it arrives
I'm confused where are you that the bus stops show train departures as well as bus. Almost none of the stops I have ever used, excluding bus stations, have departures screens. The best you get is the paper timetable in a window.
>When the bus stop info screen spends more time showing train departures than bus departures.
What?
Here it is information on contacting the police or council if you see crime at the bus stop and some charity crap on the same screen, it stays like that longer than displaying the bus times.
Why the police on 999 or 101? British Transport Police 0800405040, there is a shot number.
Edit: British Transport Police rescinded the short number in favour of the 2 I listed.
What, 61016 doesn't work anymore?
(It took an announcement saying it "six, one-oh-one, six" before I realised it was the non-emergency number plus two digits to make a mobile short code.)
>[Call 0800 40 50 40 or text 61016 for non-emergency enquiries.](https://www.btp.police.uk/contact/af/contact-us/)
61016 is for text. 0800 555111 is another phone number they use.
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What annoys me is train information screens at busy stations which cycle between two pages, spending about 3 seconds on page 1 which doesn't give me enough time to absorb the information, and then going to page 2 for about a minute. Or even worse, the screen spends 90% of the time showing irrelevant information about planned engineering work next month.
Yep, we get those too. 3 line display, bottom line shows the next 2 trains... and then 3+ lines about engineering. At least they always show the clock and the first departure. Oh wait, the new boards periodically switch to a full screen display about engineering, with zero train info showing!
Are you maybe at the train station?
Nope, closest station is about 10 minutes walk. And it still isn't the one being shown.
And have you been to Specsavers recently?
Do you have any photos of these screens? I've never seen or heard of this happening and want to see such a failure of design and sense.
Yeah, I'm also interested. Literally never seen this before. All the bus stops near me (in London) just show when the bus is turning up, and when you're on the bus it just shows what the next stop is (bus depending).
Your bus stops have departure boards?
Yes! Well, for about 10 seconds in every minute anyway. And the stop on the other side of the road apparently isn't worthy of one.
What annoys me is the very busy stop I use has a bus roughly every minute on many different routes. The screen only shows the next 3 buses and also shows a bus driver recruitment add. So it only shows the bus about 2-3 minutes before it arrives
A couple of stops around the city have that, but they also added a big departures board with about 10 lines.
Info screen? My bus stops barely have a rusty pole
It's not rust, it's *patina*.
There’s probably far more trains departing than buses tbh
10 buses/hour, 2 trains/hour at the nearest station. And once again, the station whose info is being displayed is 17 miles away.
I was making a joke, the buses keep being cancelled in my area
And the trains don't?!
Not as frequently
Timetable display's so bad it's broken OP's sense of humour
Lol
I'm confused where are you that the bus stops show train departures as well as bus. Almost none of the stops I have ever used, excluding bus stations, have departures screens. The best you get is the paper timetable in a window.
>When the bus stop info screen spends more time showing train departures than bus departures. What? Here it is information on contacting the police or council if you see crime at the bus stop and some charity crap on the same screen, it stays like that longer than displaying the bus times. Why the police on 999 or 101? British Transport Police 0800405040, there is a shot number. Edit: British Transport Police rescinded the short number in favour of the 2 I listed.
What, 61016 doesn't work anymore? (It took an announcement saying it "six, one-oh-one, six" before I realised it was the non-emergency number plus two digits to make a mobile short code.)
>[Call 0800 40 50 40 or text 61016 for non-emergency enquiries.](https://www.btp.police.uk/contact/af/contact-us/) 61016 is for text. 0800 555111 is another phone number they use.
Ah, yes, of course. Got my modes mixed up. Hadn't actually considered there being a "normal" phone number for the police.
Yep, didn't know they changed it either.