That's loopy, I can understand that sone of the first systems put in place would be incompatible but new ones! Surely given the amount of flack TOCs^▸ (Train Operating Company) get following major disruption about the lack of clear info given to passengers there would be a case for expanding the current systems to support entry of disruption information into a central system which all CIS^▸ (Customer Information System) run off?

Romsey Station has some contractors this week putting in new platform LED boards (looks like 2 lines and a clock). Also today they were putting up what looks like a departures board on one of the platforms (I assume there will be another on the ticket office side. Can't wait to wave bye bye to the old fuzzy departures CRT^‡(resolve) monitors which are nearly impossible to read at the corners (the most useful bit where it says how late the FGW^▸ (First Great Western) service WILL be).
Hopefully poor speaker for the audio announcements will be replaced as well. And I hope that having the time so obviously in the platforms will encourage FGW to try and keep to it rather than always running a few (if your lucky) minutes late.
Does anyone know if the quality of the information shown on the new system will be different (i.e. will they have a new back end?) as the current one seems very inaccurate compared to those at SWT^▸ (South West Trains) stations.