Probably stating the obvious, but might that be because on that section all of the westbound trains are going to the same destination, and all of the eastbound trains are via the north side of the circle, where one can change to an appropriate train if necessary? I don't think there'd be much point in having indicators on the WB at least, seeing as they'd only tell us what we already know (the next train will be to Paddington H&C, in an arbitrary amount of time).***** wrote:how is is that the H&C line between Paddington and Hammersmith has NO 'next train' indicators boards whatsoever, and yet there is money and time spent on replacing the perfectly functional ones at Stratford Jubilee with something inferior. a bit like what they've done with the entire Victoria Line DMI's.
I guess that's because the current ones do exactly the same job as the ones that would be brought in (and the fact that they're listed and can't be removed). It would be pointless for Earl's Court to have indicators capable of showing multiple trains, as it's generally unknown which platform the train will be coming in to until it is on its approach to Earl's Court. Also, unlike most other SSL stations, installation of modern screens would require more work as there isn't a convenient ceiling to hang them from.cheshire cat wrote:Why hasn't somewhere Earl's Court (not exactly a quiet backwater) been given a proper, modern, user friendly PIS? Surely it's better to bring everywhere up to a decent standard rather than moving some stations onto their second generation DMIs when others are yet to get them.
In honesty I think LU could do away with the countdown timers, given how inaccurate they generally are, and just settle for something like either one of these, which show line, destination, and intermediate stations:
