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Mandurah train announcing wrong stations
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:07 pm
by perthskies
So I was coming home from Murdoch University and I got on the train from Murdoch Station.
When the train arrived at the next station (Cockburn Central), to my surprise the automated voice and tickering display said "This is Murdoch". This continued on from station to station. The voice was announcing the stations one station before the right one. A lot of the commuters were either mocking it or became confused.
When I got off at my destination at Rockingham, you hear it saying "This is Wellard". Deceiving! Certainly woke me up.
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:10 pm
by Hodgie
what set was it on? and does anyone know of any other cases of it happening today?
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:15 pm
by scoreed
i dont know of any today but this happened to me on the Joondalup line a couple of months ago traveling toward Perth, but it caught up eventually to the right station
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:58 pm
by written_ficton
It happens nearly all the time.
Your on in Perth and it says Next Station, Perth.... like wtf?
She sounds cute though
Re: Mandurah train announcing wrong stations
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 5:26 am
by Hodgie
i'm just trying to think what it says at mandurah
Re: Mandurah train announcing wrong stations
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 7:53 am
by Robb
I really love the automated voice, when I was over there I was glad it said the right stations or i'd get a lil confused. Knowing that the voice was out of syncro shows that there is no electrical device that tells the train what station they're at, instead it probably just has information in a computer that actives whenever the train stops. Perhaps the train stopped before a station and got out of order. I have heard people take their lives by jumping infront of trains too?
Re: Mandurah train announcing wrong stations
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:25 am
by Toottoot
The driver just pushes a button to make it announce and it plays the next message 'on the tape'. If the button gets pushed twice it will be out of whack. Doors closing.
Re: Mandurah train announcing wrong stations
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 11:54 am
by written_ficton
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Re: Mandurah train announcing wrong stations
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 11:56 am
by Toottoot
written_ficton wrote:Must be caused by the flux capacitor hey tootyfruity
So much for the pledge.
Re: Mandurah train announcing wrong stations
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 12:01 pm
by written_ficton
Toottoot wrote:So much for the pledge.
yes sorry, couldnt help but bring that one up!
I'll delete
Re: Mandurah train announcing wrong stations
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 12:44 pm
by Robb
Thanks! A simple way to do it...
Re: Mandurah train announcing wrong stations
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 4:09 pm
by Nafenn
A 2-car "A" set that I'm on at the moment seems to be getting a bit ahead of itself, all the station announcements are for the one following the next
Re: Mandurah train announcing wrong stations
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:32 pm
by Bonez
Thornlie or Armadale?
Re: Mandurah train announcing wrong stations
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 11:19 pm
by cat1
havn't had a lot to do with this new line but yeah the driver is pushing the button twice during the day? does he need a refresher ?????
Re: Mandurah train announcing wrong stations
Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:41 am
by written_ficton
cat1 wrote:havn't had a lot to do with this new line but yeah the driver is pushing the button twice during the day? does he need a refresher ?????
Get tootyfruity to ring up the PTA and lodge a complaint.... he is good at that