Alas - things appear to be going from bad to worse at National Express East Coast.
'A Conductor' writes in to say:
Thought you might be interested in the state of NXEC's new Information columns at York station, pictured on Saturday.
Installed a few months ago, they seem to be undergoing some sort of technical difficulty...
Presumably DafT will be using exactly the same form of words within a matter of weeks?
Network Rail has spent enormous amounts of time and money creating a National Electronic Sectional Appendix (NESA).
And a jolly good thing it is too.
But what's this?
To view NESA on-line you need to download the SVG Viewer from Adobe.
Alas - when you visit the download page it carries the following sorry message:
Please note that Adobe has announced that it will discontinue support for Adobe SVG Viewer on January 1, 2009.
Always good to see one legacy system replaced by another.
IT consultants, bonuses and trebles all round!
UPDATE: This from Tom over at Blairwatch (which hasn't been updated since 8th May!):
A tad harsh - SVG is an open standard with plenty of viewer support around the place, as NR make clear.
Now, if NR had used some kooky format that you had to pay Microsoft squillions to interpret, I'd have been up for giving them a good kicking, but using SVG is common sense.
Now all we need is open access to NR's geographic data in some interestingly queryable form, plus the postcode database, the Ordnance Survey data etc... etc...
Read and weep:
SUMMARY: POO HIGH ST LC CCTV FLR
SOURCE: TSID, CCF, CCIL
FULL DETAIL: CCIL REF 320760
13:14 Advised by Poole signaller that he has no CCTV picture from High Street LC. He has tried swapping the cameras and monitors to no avail. Unable to lower the barriers until an attendant is onsite due to the volume of pedestrian traffic over this crossing.
1W29, 1105 Waterloo to Weymouth trapped.
13:20 1W31 1135 Waterloo-Weymouth will be held in platform 4 at Bournemouth pending developments at Poole.
13:33 Advised by Poole signaller that he now has the CCTV picture
1W31 1135 Waterloo-Weymouth will be held in platform 4 at Bournemouth pending developments at Poole.
13:33 Advised by Poole signaller that he now has the CCTV picture and trains are on the move again. Signaller had tried hitting the monitor to no effect but the late shift signaller has just arrived and hit the monitor a bit harder, now has a picture again.
START TIME: 1314LINES AFFECTED: UL/DL
TRAINS AFFECTED: 1W29/1W31
EQUIPMENT INVOLVED: CCTV
REPORTS REQUESTED Y/N: NO
*** 06/08/08 01:47 #QCIAM05 *** AMENDED
*** 06/08/08 08:46 #QCTDA10 *** AMENDED
FMS 131870
End of report
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