Metrolink information displays

[dannypye9999]

It was 2008 when metrolink erected information displays along the Altrincham line.....five years later....still boarded up and wrapped in their original wrappings? How much longer am I going to have to stand on the stretford platform guessing when the next tram will arrive?

 

[507 001]

It was 2008 when metrolink erected information displays along the Altrincham line.....five years later....still boarded up and wrapped in their original wrappings? How much longer am I going to have to stand on the stretford platform guessing when the next tram will arrive?

I'm afraid that until TMS becomes operational all the way down the Alti line your stuck guessing!
No TMS.... No PIDs

 

[Manchester77]

Use traveline and none of them are in their original wrappings these were all either removed or blown off.

TMS is progressing nicely now work is coming to an end at the Old Trafford junction and TMS mass detectors and antennas are being installed so I'd imagine early next year.

 

[dannypye9999]

Whats TMS mean?

 

[snowball]

Tram Management System. Parts of Metrolink are controlled by it. The whole system will eventually be controlled by it - and would have been by now but for the protracted teething troubles, now believed solved in principle.

 

[WatcherZero]

At the moment you have it operational everywhere (though at some junctions in partial interim configurations) everywhere except the Bury line and Altrincham line, current schedule is that Altrincham line would be done next and Bury line would be the last to rollout.

PIDs were installed on the Altrincham line in 2008 because thats when the stations on the line were being refurbished and changed from blue livery to yellow livery. Bury line followed later and Eccles line had a more limited refurbishment mainly a repaint as it wasnt as old. During the refurbishments they also installed cable ducting for the future smartcard reader rollout alongside improvements to CCTV, platform comms (moving from a dialup phone system to internet packet based comms) and other improvements.

The old system for platform announcements being phone based had a limit on how many stations you could simultaneously announce to and each additional station added reduced the audio quality.