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ebay mike

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Just shelled out for 6 x LGB 17100 track contact switches. The plan is to wire them to 20 second birthday card recordable messages to give station sounds. Anyone else tried this? If a bad (or unworkable) idea I may have six 17100s for sale shortly.
 
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Just shelled out for 6 x LGB 17100 track contact switches. The plan is to wire them to 20 second birthday card recordable messages to give station sounds. Anyone else tried this? If a bad (or unworkable) idea I may have six 17100s for sale shortly.
Mike,

I haven't tried your creative approach with the 17100s but I have previously linked one to a 'passing contact' switched 6v sound module that created a bell sound on approach to a level crossing. Worked a treat!
 

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My favourite station announcement has always been "The train now arriving at platforms 2, 3, 4, and 5 is coming in sideways",

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My favourite station announcement has always been "The train now arriving at platforms 2, 3, 4, and 5 is coming in sideways",

David
Doesn't beat the matrix boards that are in use now.

'The 17:06 is CANCELLED - calling at .................... and then it lists all the stations that it would have stopped at if ............. :mad::mad:

B****y idiots :lipssealed::lipssealed::lipssealed::lipssealed::lipssealed:
 
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ebay mike

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Doesn't beat the matrix boards that are in use now.

'The 17:06 is CANCELLED - calling at .................... and then it lists all the stations that it would have stopped at if ............. :mad::mad:

B****y idiots :lipssealed::lipssealed::lipssealed::lipssealed::lipssealed:
I've also been experimenting with matrix boards. Bought a couple of the scrolling badges (off eBay naturally) from China. I wore one on my last few days at work showing notices like 'No food or drink please - this is a bus not a *#*#*#* restaurant' and 'I'm not late - just in the wrong place'. I've now got one displaying all the different routes and destinations for the original Orient Express ready for the station (when it finally gets built).
 

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My favourite station announcement has always been "The train now arriving at platforms 2, 3, 4, and 5 is coming in sideways",

David

"Passengers waiting for the 7:45 to London from Platform 2 will have to run very fast because it is now leaving Platform 5...."

Jon.
 
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"Passengers waiting for the 7:45 to London from Platform 2 will have to run very fast because it is now leaving Platform 5...."

Jon.
...or the station passenger info display that read, for a few glorious seconds a couple of years ago:

Can't go yet. Squire's not here.
 

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...or the station passenger info display that read, for a few glorious seconds a couple of years ago:

Can't go yet. Squire's not here.


Lovely - an echo of a bygone age.... and a MUCH better excuse than most of the ones they come up with these days! :rofl:

Jon.
 

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I also recall a classic Giles cartoon from many decades ago, during the worst days of British Rail - I don't remember the actual joke, but the scene was a railway platform (probably Ipswich) and the departure board - which was just a throwaway joke in the background of the main cartoon - read something like:

06:00 CANCELLED
06:20 CANCELLED
06:40 DELAYED
06:50 CANCELLED
07:00 MISSING, PRESUMED LOST....


:devil:

Jon.
 

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Anyone come up with "Everybody Out! We're on Strike!" Perfect for the Blue diesel period of BR
 

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The train now standing on Platform 2 should really be on the track.

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Seen on the LED information display in carriages on a train:
"Do mind the extraordinary large gap at Hackbridge...if you fall into it then you will enter another dimension.."
 

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I haven't used birthday card sound cards for station announcements, but I have used a couple to provide sounds for my IP Engineering Simplex. Not bad sound output considering their price.


Having now got to grips with Arduino and sounds, I think I would now use that set up for station announcements




Rik
 
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My favourite station announcement has always been "The train now arriving at platforms 2, 3, 4, and 5 is coming in sideways",

David
With the addition of “- lady driver.”
Beats rapid exit......