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A question about old station destination boards

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      Iain Chief Commissioner

    Location: Concord, NSW
    In the old days before video screens most Sydney stations had destination boards of revolving signs set in rows according to each line/route and with a clock on top showing the time the next train departed. Did these have a specific name, if so what was it?

    Iain
    Posted: 20 May 2013 10:53

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      Blackadder Chief Commissioner

    Location: Not the ECRL
    Rollover indicator boards (to the best of my knowledge)
    Posted: 20 May 2013 11:04
      bowralcommuter Chief Commissioner
    Posted: 20 May 2013 11:29
      RBC Locomotive Driver

    Location: Beautiful Richmond
    Rollover indicator boards (to the best of my knowledge)
    Blackadder
    They were also known as Slat Boards
    Posted: 20 May 2013 19:06
      wurx Lithgovian Ambassador-at-Large

    Location: The mystical lost principality of Daptovia
    In the old days before video screens most Sydney stations had destination boards of revolving signs set in rows according to each line/route and with a clock on top showing the time the next train departed. Did these have a specific name, if so what was it?

    Iain
    Iain
    Several still do, including Loftus and Waterfall (possibly also Engadine & Heathcote), and virtually all the South Coast line stations.

    Without knowing for sure, I suspect that many other InterCity stations (besides Bowral) also still have them.
    Posted: 21 May 2013 11:34
      victorwilson Junior Train Controller

    Location: Temporarily stuck in the ACT
    All stations on the Carlingford Line, including Clyde, have them. Rydalmere recently got its boards replaced with a new set (red/yellow background and "Frutiger" text).


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    Posted: 21 May 2013 12:12
      electrax Assistant Commissioner

    They were easy to use, having a foot pedal near the base to lock the slats.  The only problem I found was keeping some of the local high school kids from fiddling with the clock hands (this was around 50 years ago in the outer western suburbs of Sydney).
    Posted: 21 May 2013 13:16
      HMC1989 Chief Commissioner

    Location: Behind a desk.
    Built plenty of those when I was an Apprentice at Interlock-Fitters at Redfern many years ago.
    Posted: 21 May 2013 21:03
      abesty1 Chief Commissioner

    Location: The CityRail Network
    Almost all attended intercity stations have them, with the exception of Gosford and Woy Woy which are the only intercity stations for electronic PID.

    Suburban stations like Waterfall-Loftus, Richmond and as mentioned the Carlingford line stations and a few others have them too.
    Posted: 22 May 2013 08:25

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      jaseee Chief Train Controller

    Mt Druitt (i assume) and St Marys still use them. They are 2 of the busiest stations in the Sydney network without electronic PIDs yet.
    Posted: 22 May 2013 11:03
      Watson374 Chief Commissioner

    Location: Fully reclined at the pointy end.
    Some of the Main South stations between Lidcombe and Cabramatta still have them, such as Villawood as of last night.
    Posted: 22 May 2013 12:01
      Iain Chief Commissioner

    Location: Concord, NSW
    Ingleburn as well.

    Thanks for the information

    Iain
    Posted: 22 May 2013 17:49
      chay0521 Beginner

    And Macquarie Fields
    Posted: 22 May 2013 17:50
      Kurmudgeon Junior Train Controller

    Richmond's isn't in use anymore (the board is still there, but the clock hands have been removed).
    Posted: 22 May 2013 19:00
      edison Chief Commissioner

    Gosford still has them in place, but hidden behind the electronic version, on the concourse.
    One of them has the stations on the  ECRL (wishful thinking!)
    Posted: 23 May 2013 00:11
      wurx Lithgovian Ambassador-at-Large

    Location: The mystical lost principality of Daptovia
    Gosford still has them in place, but hidden behind the electronic version, on the concourse.
    One of them has the stations on the  ECRL (wishful thinking!)
    edison
    Wollstonecraft had them in 2005, with the (then) in the future ECRL stations thereupon. I noticed that when briefly working on the station then.
    Posted: 23 May 2013 00:42
      Kurmudgeon Junior Train Controller

    Richmond's isn't in use anymore (the board is still there, but the clock hands have been removed).
    Kurmudgeon
    Need to correct myself; no clock face at all.
    Posted: 23 May 2013 10:08
      electrax Assistant Commissioner

    Mt Druitt is where I encountered them in the 1960s.  That was at the station which prexisted the current station (1970s-build) and was located several hundred metres west of the present station.  In the old days only Platform 1 (eastbound trains) had a pair of such devices, which allowed the display of trains operating semi-fast and fast services to the city. Platform 2 (westbound trains) didn't need the indicators because every suburban electric that stopped at Mount Druitt bound for Penrith stopped "all-stations" between there and Penrith.
    Posted: 23 May 2013 13:14

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