Where is work in progress?

grahame

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Where is work in progress?

« on: May 21, 2010, 06:37:07 »

Where are the pictures, and what's the job being done?


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Re: Where is work in progress?

« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2010, 07:52:32 »

Number 1 is obviously Melksham. Looks like a base for a ticket machine of some kind, perhaps a PERTIS^▸ machine?

Number 2 is Bradford-on-Avon but I've no idea what the "thing" is.


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« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2010, 07:52:44 »

It's Melksham, and I'd love to think it's a new passenger information display or even a ticket machine, but I fear it's probably going to be an advertising sign for McDonalds half a mile away along the Chippenham road (but don't bother looking for a taxi or waiting for a bus)


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« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2010, 07:53:45 »

And yes, seconded what Brucey says - number 2 is Bradford on Avon.


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Re: Where is work in progress?

« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2010, 08:07:42 »

Is Number 2 some sort of hinged barrier blocking access to the barrow crossing?


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Re: Where is work in progress?

« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2010, 09:05:36 »

It looks a bit like those end of platform barriers you get on the tube.


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Re: Where is work in progress?

« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2010, 11:06:49 »

Correctly identified as Melksham and Bradford-on-Avon

The Bradford-on-Avon picture is taken from the steps up to the footbridge, and it's a protective-wrapper-covered sign for the new help point which is installed down the column, also protective-wrapped and not yet live.

The Melksham picture is where the column for the new information point will be situated; I took the photo while I was down there yesterday.

Quote from: Phil on May 21, 2010, 07:52:44

It's Melksham, and I'd love to think it's a new passenger information display or even a ticket machine, but I fear ...

Fear not, Phil - it IS for the new help point, which will include a passenger information display - a.k.a. a screen with train times, updated to show arriving train's progress. Really excellent to have this - lets get some more trains to fill the display.

((Big THANK YOU to FGW^▸ for going for a model which has an integral display; one of the big things people want at an unmanned station is current information about the incoming train(s) that they can get wih out having to keep pressing a button / making a phone call))


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Re: Where is work in progress?

« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2010, 11:12:02 »

Quote from: grahame on May 21, 2010, 11:06:49

Hopefully the designers have been working hard to ensure that the information point is theft proof, unlike those at Redland and Montpelier which still haven't been found or replaced Sad


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Re: Where is work in progress?

« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2010, 12:02:14 »

There are new help points being installed all over FGW^▸ land it seems, with new ones all a long the Barnstaple - Exmouth line - although we are not having the fancy screens, just info and emergency buttons which put you through to an operator (which is still better than expecting customers to call 0845 numbers on their mobiles for information!)


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