Comeng on the Burnley group
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 9:45 pm
I travelled in one to Belgrave on Mon.28.8. The gossip is that some are rostered regularly with the 27.8 timetable change.
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Rosanna is another one. Station is closed for 6months and it still announces Arriving at Rosanna. No informations at Heidelberg or Macleod about changing to a bus.Heihachi_73 wrote:I was in 29M on a down Lilydale this morning (30M leading), the PIDs and next station announcements in this set are stuffed. The train announced about four stations all the way from the city to Ringwood, where it was still "arriving at Blackburn". I have now caught this set (29M-1315T-30M) three times and every time the PIDs have been faulty in both directions.
Speaking of PIDs, when are they going to make them actually work properly on X'Trapolis trains at the new stations? They almost always get stuck "arriving at Mitcham" on down services all the way to Ringwood, despite the station having been moved years ago. Down trains sometimes display Mitcham, but never show Heatherdale once then train stops there, which means that no down train ever advises people to change for Belgrave or Lilydale trains because it never detects Ringwood until it has stopped and the doors are released. On the up, Heatherdale and Mitcham seem to be within enough distance that the PIDs still operate properly. I have not yet been on a Comeng through either station to see whether they are any different.
I second the London idea. The announcements are concise and give the information you need about the station and any landmarks that station may be near. Although I did find that the announcements are not standard across the board and differ between different train sets, i.e the announcements on an old Jubilee line train were structured differently to the announcements on say, an S7 train that would run on the District, Circle or Metropolitan line.CAL wrote:On topic of on board pids etc,
The whole Metro on board system needs a massive overhaul. The original Connex Alstom Comengs had the best system in 2000 but it was butchered over the years. It was and we need something similar to on board annoucements in the UK. Approaching annoucements “We are now approaching Jolimont” then announcement the station when doors open. Eg. ‘This is Jolimont. This is a Hurstbridge Line train to Eltham. The next station is Clifton Hill”. ‘LIMITED EXPRESS TO ELTHAM’ is useless and offers no onboard information to the passenger. At least the Comengs annouce Express runs. Though not single station skips.
Wouldn't that second piece of information be far more relevant BEFORE the train departs Caulfield? Not much point knowing the next station stopped at is Moorabbin after departing Caulfield if you were wanting to get off at Glenhuntly...Once stationary with the doors open, you'd hear:
This is Caulfield. Change for Pakenham, Cranbourne and V/line services. Alight here for Monash University, Caulfield campus".
Then once you've departed, you'd hear:
This is a Frankston line train to Frankston. The next station is Glen Huntly..
Have they stopped that recently? I rode on an off-peak train from Baker Street to Amersham and return in 2009 and it ran express through the inner section, which was serviced by the other two branches of the line. I believe they have introduced new rollingstock to that line since I last wast there.Mitch wrote:But, on the other hand, the reason why the Underground announcements wouldn't work here in Melbourne is because they don't run express services. The longer the announcement, the more time consuming it becomes.