Disco lights on Avanti train this morning

[WolvertonWorks]

We were on an Avanti from Milton Keynes to Euston this morning, the late running 9:27 service.

Sorry I don't know what type of carriage it was but it looked to be fairly new.

My question relates to the lights above the window which show reservations - they kept cycling between no colour, red, green and blue throughout the journey - we started calling them the disco lights after they'd cycled a few times

I'm assuming red means reserved and green means the seat is vacant but what does blue mean?

Thanks

 

[tfw756rider]

Realtime Trains | 1A18 0740 Liverpool Lime Street to London Euston | 01/03/2025

Real-time train running information for 1A18 0740 departure from Liverpool Lime Street to London Euston on 01/03/2025. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.

www.realtimetrains.co.uk

Realtime Trains says that this service (yours) was operated with 807004, so a Class 807 unit.

It sounds like the system was (for whatever reason) in a test mode and the LEDs are RGB (red/green/blue) LEDs so display those three colours as part of the test, even though they can display more colours through combinations.

I believe that when the system is actually working in use, red is reserved now, yellow is reserved for part of the journey and green is vacant / not reserved.

 

[800301]

Realtime Trains | 1A18 0740 Liverpool Lime Street to London Euston | 01/03/2025

Real-time train running information for 1A18 0740 departure from Liverpool Lime Street to London Euston on 01/03/2025. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.

www.realtimetrains.co.uk

Realtime Trains says that this service (yours) was operated with 807004, so a Class 807 unit.

It sounds like the system was (for whatever reason) in a test mode and the LEDs are RGB (red/green/blue) LEDs so display those three colours as part of the test, even though they can display more colours through combinations.

I believe that when the system is actually working in use, red is reserved now, yellow is reserved for part of the journey and green is vacant / not reserved.

Yeah that would be test mode, it can only be turned off on a maintenance login on the TMS, a phone call from the TM to Hitachi would have sorted this

 

[WolvertonWorks]

Thanks for the information.