In 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 tra

In 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...