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Title: St Austell and Par - new PISes or PIS failure? Post by: sorch on March 08, 2010, 09:58:42 It seems that the PISes at Par and St Austell are being anything but - they are simply displaying the FGW logo fading in and out on the screen.
I've never seen this before so I don't know if it was a function of the current system or not, but are FGW finally replacing them with something newer (as I believe they promised they would years ago)? (hopefully this posts, 4th time lucky - the instant I click post I lose coverage. I love XC Voyagers.) Title: Re: St Austell and Par - new PISes or PIS failure? Post by: vacman on March 08, 2010, 18:15:35 New CIS is being installed at nearly all FGW stations in the next couple of months, oh, and Voyagers are sh1te
Title: Re: St Austell and Par - new PISes or PIS failure? Post by: old original on March 08, 2010, 19:13:28 Apparently there's been a major failure on the west cis system which knocked out a large number of locations. when the screens don't receive updates the revert to the logo. It is patchy though, in cornwall, Truro - Liskeard not working, but west of Truro was. Other areas were the same.
Title: Re: St Austell and Par - new PISes or PIS failure? Post by: sorch on March 08, 2010, 19:28:27 It was still broken (well, displaying that logo with the usual awful picture quality that you'd expect) when I came back at ~6:30.
I didn't know that it was somewhat centralised. I thought that every station had their own system (not just the bit that generates the output for the screens). Title: Re: St Austell and Par - new PISes or PIS failure? Post by: old original on March 08, 2010, 19:36:59 All the ex-Wessex stations are still using the system run centrally by Arriva in Cardiff on behalf of FGW. Half the Arriva stations' CIS aren't working either.
Title: Re: St Austell and Par - new PISes or PIS failure? Post by: Nemesis on May 20, 2010, 10:20:29 They are taking the PIS...literally. I heard a driver tell a guard that passengers are now to be known as customers. Hence CIS not PIS ;D
Title: Re: St Austell and Par - new PISes or PIS failure? Post by: inspector_blakey on May 24, 2010, 01:00:58 Hmm. Your (apocryphal...?) guard and driver seem to be somewhat behind the times. The edict that passengers should be known as customers was only issued about 20 years ago in the days of British Rail.
Title: Re: St Austell and Par - new PISes or PIS failure? Post by: Nemesis on May 31, 2010, 06:26:13 Hmm. Your (apocryphal...?) guard and driver... Excellent ;D Title: Re: St Austell and Par - new PISes or PIS failure? Post by: Ollie on May 31, 2010, 23:50:23 Both CIS and PIS tends to be used from what I hear :P
Particularly Thames Valley.. CIS is at Stations and PIS is on the trains. Title: Re: St Austell and Par - new PISes or PIS failure? Post by: Zoe on June 01, 2010, 08:07:09 New CIS is being installed at nearly all FGW stations in the next couple of months Is this really needed at ex-Intercity stations? The FGW CIS there is only 10 years old.This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |