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i don't know why they don't automate the important stuff.
>this is an LNER service to Edinburgh Waverley
>please note that if your ticket has Lumo or Grand Central on it, you're on the wrong train OR we are also accepting tickets for the cancelled 18:00 Grand Central service
>seats with green lights above them are unreserved, yellow lights may be taken by someone else later, red lights mean reserved
and then have that scrolling on the LED displays in the carriages, along with the 'see it say it sorted' bollocks.
i always feel so sorry for normies and tourists when the "train manager" is apparently holding his intercom mic at arm's length and mumbling a list of destinations into it, while everyone is still doing the 'loudly shoving their luggage into the overheads and asking each other if this is the right carriage' dance. especially if there's been a delay and some genius has signalled a 16:02 and a 16:03 into the same platform, and nobody's sure if they're on the right train.
