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Don't trains have a route or vehicle number like flights and busses?
by goodpoint 4y ago
Don't trains have a route or vehicle number like flights and busses?
- ssl232 4y agoI think the commenter was making the point that, whilst blindly getting on a train arriving at the correct platform 2 minutes early would work in most parts of the world, it doesn't in Japan.
- goodpoint 4y agoIt happens in other busy stations around the world as well. Check the train number.
- WesolyKubeczek 4y agoHappened to me. Not in Japan. I once boarded a train that had arrived at the correct platform, on time, and to the correct destination. It turned out, though, that I had a ticket for a different train that was late.
- chrisseaton 4y agoNot in the UK. They have destinations.
- TylerE 4y agoThe UK has the head code system, which is much the same.
- chrisseaton 4y agoWhatever they are those aren’t shown to the user anywhere I’ve looked. People just say ‘the 1030 to Euston’ or whatever. I’m sure they have internal IDs.
- tremon 4y agoIn NL, trains indeed do not have route numbers, and the vehicle (carriage) numbers are usually not for public consumption. The one exception is for when the train splits halfway through the route: it'll be announced as "after the next stop, carriages A and B will continue on to X; carriages C and D will go to Y". That said, we have had dynamic train information displays on all platforms for as long as I can remember (wikipedia says since 1961). When I was young, they used to be mechanical rotary displays [0] (klapperborden, aka "clacking displays", referring to the sound they make when the system was leafing through the pre-printed sheets), but they have been replaced with TV screens or LED matrix displays in most places now. [0] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centraal_bediende_treinaanwijzers_in_Nederland https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centraal_bediende_treinaanwijz...