Northern give every conductor a watch
 

It was in Tuesday's Metro paper that Northern were giving conductors sychronised watches to ensure trains don't leave stations late.

Wouldn't sychronised station clocks be better?

Its about time too !

I may be wrong but I'd guess that the clocks and the watches will both be synchronised. That'd certainly make sense anyway.

Adam

I beleve that they are Radio Controlled, Rainhill have one of the clocks and is quite impresive it tells you the type pof moon and tempiture as well but doent tell you where th train is thogh.

"I was once told that the railway had it's own time"

But why would you want to know the temperature or type of moon? Unless of course you where a werewolf, but I don't think there are many of them who use public transport.

Adam

Thats the Railway for you !

This has happened quite alot recently. First Capital Connect has just issued all its traincrew with company branded Rugby watches. They receive a radio signal (60 KHz IIRC) and automatically synchronise several times during the early hours of the morning with the signals from either Rugby or Frankfurt. If you want to you can force the watch to synchronise any time, and the process takes several minutes. The master clock is atomic, so the watches effectively have an accuracy of 1 second in 6 million years, so they ought to be good enough for our timekeeping !

I've never liked digital watches so I prefer to wear my own analogue one, which is a Casio Waveceptor.

Over here all the clocks look the same, but only some of them are synchronised. Oddly enough the ones that are have a cursor which stays illuminated, whilst the ones which aren't have a flashing cursor. (Just a bit of trivia)

The Sation Staff have been given Multi Tool which is abit like a swiss army knife with Northern branding on them.

The Money for these things could be better Spent on New Trains !

No, John. Keep the staff happy with new widgits and toys, and the trains will run on time.

You can give the staff all the gadgets you like!

BUT, if the public won't get on the train before the customary kissy kissy hug hug then the conductor can't close the doors. The more this happens at stations the later the trains gonna get and no amount of fancy watches is gonna sort that out.

Les