Station announcements
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Alec K
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Mike,
I haven't tried your creative approach with the 17100s but I have previously linked one to a 'passing contact' switched 6v sound module that created a bell sound on approach to a level crossing. Worked a treat!
Rhinochugger
Retired Oik
Doesn't beat the matrix boards that are in use now.
'The 17:06 is CANCELLED - calling at .................... and then it lists all the stations that it would have stopped at if .............
B****y idiots
ebay mike
Retired, but still hoarding. (GOF)
I've also been experimenting with matrix boards. Bought a couple of the scrolling badges (off eBay naturally) from China. I wore one on my last few days at work showing notices like 'No food or drink please - this is a bus not a *#*#*#* restaurant' and 'I'm not late - just in the wrong place'. I've now got one displaying all the different routes and destinations for the original Orient Express ready for the station (when it finally gets built).Doesn't beat the matrix boards that are in use now.
'The 17:06 is CANCELLED - calling at .................... and then it lists all the stations that it would have stopped at if .............
B****y idiots
Neil Robinson
Registered
Mine is "We regret the delay to the Yorkshire Pullman. It was due to bad management"
Zerogee
Clencher's Bogleman
"Passengers waiting for the 7:45 to London from Platform 2 will have to run very fast because it is now leaving Platform 5...."
Jon.
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Alec K
Guest
...or the station passenger info display that read, for a few glorious seconds a couple of years ago:
Can't go yet. Squire's not here.
Zerogee
Clencher's Bogleman
Lovely - an echo of a bygone age.... and a MUCH better excuse than most of the ones they come up with these days!
Jon.
Zerogee
Clencher's Bogleman
I also recall a classic Giles cartoon from many decades ago, during the worst days of British Rail - I don't remember the actual joke, but the scene was a railway platform (probably Ipswich) and the departure board - which was just a throwaway joke in the background of the main cartoon - read something like:
06:00 CANCELLED
06:20 CANCELLED
06:40 DELAYED
06:50 CANCELLED
07:00 MISSING, PRESUMED LOST....
Jon.
06:00 CANCELLED
06:20 CANCELLED
06:40 DELAYED
06:50 CANCELLED
07:00 MISSING, PRESUMED LOST....
Jon.
voodoopenguin
Retired
The train now standing on Platform 2 should really be on the track.
Paul
Paul
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beavercreek
Travel, Art, Theatre, Music, Photography, Trains
Seen on the LED information display in carriages on a train:
"Do mind the extraordinary large gap at Hackbridge...if you fall into it then you will enter another dimension.."
"Do mind the extraordinary large gap at Hackbridge...if you fall into it then you will enter another dimension.."
ge_rik
British narrow gauge (esp. Southwold and W&LLR)
I haven't used birthday card sound cards for station announcements, but I have used a couple to provide sounds for my IP Engineering Simplex. Not bad sound output considering their price.
Having now got to grips with Arduino and sounds, I think I would now use that set up for station announcements
riksrailway.blogspot.com
Rik
Having now got to grips with Arduino and sounds, I think I would now use that set up for station announcements
Bluetooth phone app loco control Part 4 - Adding sound
Narrow gauge large scale model garden railway. Battery powered, radio controlled locomotives, some Bluetooth. Set in Cheshire UK in 1930s
riksrailway.blogspot.com
Rik
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KeithT
Hillwalking, chickens and - err - garden railways.
With the addition of “- lady driver.”
Beats rapid exit......