Tower Hill reversers - announcement at Monument?

Good points by Colin and Dave, with which I agree.

No reason at all why the thing can not be reprogrammed to be more usefull, just a matter of software, not hardware. It's got to be reprogrammed to deal with the East London Line Buses and London Overground, so they really aught to redo the whole lot at the same time ! (I'd prefer a male voice for eastbound trips too, to enhance the difference in direction of travel, as South West Trains platform PA's do).

Given the main Ealing service runs to Tower Hill, a seperate Ealing - Tower option should be programmed in and this could then accomodate pmrnorthern's suggested announcements at Monument, as well as saving the driver having to select Ealing - Upminster and then scroll through the station list from Upminster to Tower to set up a Tower Hill short !!! (likewise as Tower Hill is underground, the train sat nav doesn't know where it is at Tower, so again defaults to Upminster as the start point and has to be scrolled through to find Tower Hill).

Some time back I studiously entered Queensway as closed each trip whilst it was being refurbished. Train then auto announced on approach to Mile End and Monument, likewise I entered Regents Park whilst that was being done as well as adhoc or other closures when I know about them.

One other note, a few annoucements sound audiably but do not appear on the dot matrix, which goes blank, and a few others appear on the dot matrix but do not sound audiably ! These seem to be software bugs rather than intentional, as there is no logic to them.

I agree with aspect on the matter of the lack of an Ealing Broadway/Tower Hill (and vice versa) options; indeed I see no reason why all the west end terminii cannot have Tower Hill as a pre-programmed route option - and come to that a Barking option for each - there are plenty of Barking reversers as booked workings.

I commend your use of the stations closed facility; I'd be happy to do the same if I had a list of the relevant codes - I've never seen one personally.

I wonder if 'they' tried to keep the system and options as simple as possible so that there was not 'overload' to the T/Ops when the kit first came in - if so the time has surely arrived that it's undoubted capabilities be used more extensively , and relavantly too.

I was however on the phone to the LSM yesterday and he mentioned that there is a publication in production which may well include details such as the CIS codes etc. Maybe there are moves afoot!

Travelling on a Barking terminator can be a fun experience. Where will it terminate? who knows! Coming home one night, p*ssing with rain, Barking train terminates at platform 3. Not great when you're in the rear coach. If you can, please let us know if you're intended location at Barking is indeed platform 3 (H&C drivers need not read / reply)!