New Customer Information Systems

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[TerminalJunkie]

The station cafe at Barnstaple has it's own departures screen:

Are you losing your touch TJ...? Its own departures screen surely?!

No-one's impressed, you know. 

Looks like the same software that the Prince of Wales pub just across the road from Didcot Parkway has on a big screen (makes a change from Sky Sports I suppose) - not quite the same as the NRES^▸ (National Rail Enquiry Service) live departure boards but obviously from the same source. Is that a subscription service that companies who want to show a departure board can pay for or is it offered free?

The LDB data is available as a webservice: http://www.livedepartureboards.co.uk/ldbws/. You just need to know how to stitch it together

[Chris from Nailsea]

Nailsea & Backwell Station now has the posts for the new system installed - and in much more sensible positions than the old ones:



... and the old ones weren't working yesterday:

[6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01]

Code:

<wsdl:definitions targetNamespace="http://thalesgroup.com/RTTI/2008-02-20/ldb/">
<wsdl:import namespace="http://thalesgroup.com/RTTI/2008-02-20/ldb/" location="rtti_2008-02-20_ldb.wsdl"/>
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<wsdl:service name="ldb">
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<wsdl:port name="LDBServiceSoap" binding="tns:LDBServiceSoap">
<soap:address location="http://realtime.nationalrail.co.uk/LDBWS/ldb2.asmx"/>
</wsdl:port>
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<wsdl:port name="LDBServiceSoap12" binding="tns:LDBServiceSoap12">
<soap12:address location="http://realtime.nationalrail.co.uk/LDBWS/ldb2.asmx"/>
</wsdl:port>
</wsdl:service>
</wsdl:definitions>

confused dot com

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[ldf1985]

Nailsea & Backwell Station now has the posts for the new system installed - and in much more sensible positions than the old ones:

... and the old ones weren't working yesterday:

Hi Chris,

I believe that newly installed post at your station is for one of the new help points.

The points recently installed at Maiden Newton and Castle Cary each have a solar panel mounted on the top!

[Louis94]

Nailsea & Backwell Station now has the posts for the new system installed - and in much more sensible positions than the old ones:

... and the old ones weren't working yesterday:

Hi Chris,

I believe that newly installed post at your station is for one of the new help points.

The points recently installed at Maiden Newton and Castle Cary each have a solar panel mounted on the top!

Yes i believe they are, we have loads of stations down here with posts, but no help points yet!

Few of the stations in cornwall have solar panels mounted on top aswell, think Liskeard does!

[inspector_blakey]

Gentle reminder folks, please don't use "quote" unnecessarily, and especially not with photos! Thank you.

[Chris from Nailsea]

Thanks, James - you make a very good point there. 

And, as the 'owner' of those photos, I've taken the opportunity to remove them from those previous 'quoted' posts - but only to reduce the amount of space taken up by this particular topic, on this forum! 

I really don't have any problem with anyone using any of my pictures elsewhere, by the way: if they're useful, in any reasonable way, please do feel free to use them!

Chris. 

[grahame]

The LDB data is available as a webservice: http://www.livedepartureboards.co.uk/ldbws/. You just need to know how to stitch it together

No - you also need the time to do the job, an appropiate Soap client (is that a child with sticky hands?), and the motivation.   I have the latter two, but not the former, at present.   

[Brucey]

The LDB data is available as a webservice: http://www.livedepartureboards.co.uk/ldbws/. You just need to know how to stitch it together

Thanks for posting this.  I didn't know it existed and can finally get round to writing the program I've wanted for several years (a personalised live departure board which stays hidden in my computer's taskbar until a problem occurs, e.g. a delay).  Will report back when I've produced something useful ...

[TerminalJunkie]

The LDB data is available as a webservice: http://www.livedepartureboards.co.uk/ldbws/. You just need to know how to stitch it together

No - you also need the time to do the job, an appropiate Soap client (is that a child with sticky hands?), and the motivation.   I have the latter two, but not the former, at present.   

Would you like a copy of the PHP source for mine?

[grahame]

The LDB data is available as a webservice: http://www.livedepartureboards.co.uk/ldbws/. You just need to know how to stitch it together

No - you also need the time to do the job, an appropiate Soap client (is that a child with sticky hands?), and the motivation.   I have the latter two, but not the former, at present.   

Would you like a copy of the PHP source for mine?

Yes ... I would love it, thanks.  Something (else!) to do over the Bank Holiday weekend 

[Louis94]

Having been in contact with a FGW^▸ (First Great Western) customer panel member, can confirm that the announcements will not be provided by Phil and Celia, as at current HSS^▸ (High Speed Services) stations.

However I can confirm that the male voice will be the one played in the engineering announcements currently at HSS stations, this being a member of staff who works in Reading Control. Who the female voice is going to be is still unknown!

[Super Guard]

Having been in contact with a FGW^▸ (First Great Western) customer panel member, can confirm that the announcements will not be provided by Phil and Celia, as at current HSS^▸ (High Speed Services) stations.

  Any reason why it can't be Celia ?

[Louis94]

Having been in contact with a FGW^▸ (First Great Western) customer panel member, can confirm that the announcements will not be provided by Phil and Celia, as at current HSS^▸ (High Speed Services) stations.

  Any reason why it can't be Celia ?

Surely if it was going to be Celia, the Customer panel member would say, the female voice currently used at Larger FGW stations?

[ldf1985]

However I can confirm that the male voice will be the one played in the engineering announcements currently at HSS^▸ (High Speed Services) stations, this being a member of staff who works in Reading Control. Who the female voice is going to be is still unknown!

Yeah, I've heard him, he sounds like Phil Sayer junior!

As for the female voice, I expect it will be that Anne women.