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Bring live train,tube,bus & tram information to your home with a UK Departure Board! Available in 3 sizes to display real time information for any station/stop.

Bristol, UK
Joined March 2017
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
2 years
Elizabeth Line opening GIVE AWAY! Follow, Like and ReTweet for a chance to win this special edition one off purple Elizabeth line Desktop Departures! Winner will be selected at random on 28/05/2022
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Competition Time! To celebrate the opening of @PeteWatermanOBE @MakingTracks3 we are giving away one of our Pro Departure Boards as seen on the MakingTracks3 layout. To enter Follow, Like, Retweet & leave a comment below. We will even throw in a Premium subscription for life…
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4 years
Win A FREE Desktop Departures XL with FREE Premium subscription for LIFE! To enter you must - follow us - retweet this competition - tag a friend who would like a board Winner will be selected from the reply's at random on 22/08/2020 12PM #Competition
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Competition Time! WIN a new Desktop Departures + Voice Packs + Premium subscription for Life!! Simply leave a comment where you heard about us? Ie A friend or via Geoff Marshall Twitter / YouTube? or Railcam, CallingAllStations etc… Winner selected at random 30/07/2022
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It's #FreebieFriday ! Follow, Retweet & Reply for the chance to win a Desktop Departures Board!! UK Only, Ends 26th July 9am, T&Cs Apply Reply must Inc #UKDepartureBoards #giveaway #Competition
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
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Win A FREE Desktop Departures (any colour) with FREE Premium subscription for LIFE! To enter you must - follow us - retweet this competition - tag a friend who would like a board Winner will be selected from the reply's at random on 16/03/2021 12PM
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@RailDepartures
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Mini Competition time! Tag a friend / Follow / Retweet for a chance to win this Google Nest Mini Winner will be picked at random on 28/06/2021 at 5PM #UKDepartureBoards
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@RailDepartures
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3 years
Really, if leaving one 1 star review was not enough.... We appreciate all the genuine reviews by people who actually own our products so thank you for those real reviews :)
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@RailDepartures
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3 years
Coming Soon! Audio Announcements & Desktop Departures V2 (with internal speaker) #ComingSoon @sayerhamilton
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@RailDepartures
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1 year
What’s your favourite colour? :)
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@RailDepartures
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9 months
Thought we better pop down the new Bristol Portway Parkway station. Why wait on the platform when you can stay sat in your car with a Desktop Departures :D
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
3 years
Think we have chosen the perfect 1w speaker for audio announcements :) small and loud :) Note: audio is for demo and not final announcement audio!!
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
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Pro Departure Board testing time :)
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
3 years
Quick demo of Audio announcements via USB speaker. Excuse the terrible audio quality from phone. Sounds amazing in person :)
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
1 year
Would there be much interest in a stand alone virtual departure board subscription for £9.99 including audio announcement support? No real board is shipped but a virtual version which loads in a browser will have same functionality.
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
4 years
A fantastic little diorama featuring our very own Desktop Departures made by @BuoysToysCromer
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
3 years
Boards even run off USB from your car and sit “Perfectly” on your dash :D
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
11 months
What do you think of our stand for the @RidersRail Crewe show on 10th/11th
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@RailDepartures
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Fantastic London underground themed toilets by leonhend from the Netherlands featuring our Medium LED board A toilet fit for @geofftech and @CASRailwayBlog More from Leon
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@RailDepartures
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1 year
Think our 15min of fame is over :D
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@RailDepartures
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4 years
What is this thing? (Reading)
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4 years
New Slim P5 board in action :) #ComingSoon
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
4 years
This is where UKDB started 5 years ago! Just one board which could only show red/green/yellow with very basic firmware / no configuration / just one feed hard coded to BPW. It has come a long way :)
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@RailDepartures
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3 years
Audio announcement development has started!
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@RailDepartures
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4 years
Grrr reviews like this are really annoying, why should we receive a crap review when shipping a board 1 week early!!!!!
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@RailDepartures
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4 years
Testing new P5 Next Generation boards :)
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
3 years
Little preview of the London Underground audio announcements via a cheap Bluetooth speaker @sayerhamilton First sample has no station reverb, the rest have reverb at 50% this will be an option Please note this preview was made at random and the data may not reflect real lines.
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
1 year
Another small stock of Small LED & Large LED boards available over at
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
5 years
Merry Christmas (nearly)
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
2 years
Three is better than two! @MoTGM
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
7 years
Fully assembled boards in stock. Get one while stocks last. P25 x10 P3 x7 P4 x4
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
2 years
Board in a customers shop window :)
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@RailDepartures
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Huge thank you to @sayerhamilton , who has created us our very own set of London Underground announcements for our upcoming audio announcements :) Also a sneak peak of some of the various London Underground audio options :)
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
1 year
New LED 3 services functionality.
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
4 years
Virtual board any one? :) - Must have real board - Must be logged into your account - Only mirrors real board. (useful if at work/traveling) - (future)Subscription feature only Coming soon!
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
4 years
Sneak peak at a new P5 board :) - wireless setup - external DC jack - new fully inclosed slim metal frame Coming soon!
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
1 year
Fantastic customer install :) What’s better than one board? Two boards!
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
3 years
Who’s looking forward to audio announcements!? Inc - London Underground (all stations/ lines inc DLR) - National Rail (all stations inc Ireland, 70 platforms, top 50 delay reasons, 30 Tocs, delays,cancellations,platform changes etc…) - Featuring @sayerhamilton Not long now!
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
4 years
Currently in playing with....
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@RailDepartures
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3 years
Batch of yellows ready for packaging / shipping :)
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@RailDepartures
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1 year
Jeez bit harsh seeing as we even tried to help resolve the simple WiFi connection issue. Can't please every one :( Reviews should be used as a tool to give a fair review of a product or service not as a weapon when your in a bad mood!
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
2 years
What do you guys think of our new mailing bags? :) Thanks @StevenagePkgLtd
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2 years
This is what 500 little speakers looks like :D
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
9 months
New fading Exp, Delayed, Cancelled status option now available. You can enable via the ‘Delays and Timings’ section of config. Use existing intervals to change fade speed. Let us know what you think about the new feature.
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
1 year
Latest batch of OLED displays have arrived :) Should keep us going a while..
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
2 years
Free Bluetooth speaker give away!! - 4 Speakers! - Follow / Tag a friend who would like one. - Winners will be selected at random on 27/05/2022
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
4 years
People was asking to see the Small/Medium/Large boards together :)
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UK Departure Boards
1 year
Hopefully this is a good start to making its size more obvious :)
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
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A Pro Departure Board in a fantastic little converted train by The Dales School in Blyth. “The children are getting so much out of it, Geography skills, reading skills and also they are getting great at telling the time and working out how late the trains are running.”…
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@RailDepartures
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Desktop Departures running off USB battery pack for 48 hours now. 50% charge left.
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
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UK Departure Boards are proud to announce that we will be sponsoring Pete Watermans Making Tracks 3! July 26th - September 2nd 2023 at Chester Cathedral. Stop by to see our boards and the fantastic model layout in action. @Hornby @PECOstreamline
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
2 years
Take your board anywhere with a USB power pack and phone hotspot :)
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
3 years
Desktop Departures V2 now available for purchase! - New look case (available in black or white) - Built in speaker (for the upcoming audio announcements) - Screen colour available in yellow/white/green/blue
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1 year
First batch of x50 Desktop Departures boards ready to be shipped on Tuesday :)
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
2 months
A nice gift :)
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Special thanks to @MoTGM for having another board (Large LED) installed in there fantastic museum. This one is using the TFGM tram feed.
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
3 years
Win a USB Speaker & FREE Audio Announcements Voice packs! To be entered into this competition Share this tweet & Tag a friend who you think would like our new Audio Announcements. Winner will be selected on 01/11/2021
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
3 years
Each LED board is carefully packaged with our custom styrofoam end packing caps and inside a double wall cardboard box to insure they arrive in the same condition they left us :)
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
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One of our Pro Departure Boards displaying departures for Milton Keynes at @ChesterCath on the @PeteWatermanOBE @MakingTracks3 model rail layout. Opening 26th July. #MakingTracks3 #RailNuts
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LawrenceoftheATeam
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@RailDepartures in a Cathedral. Whatever next?
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@RailDepartures
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1 year
@LNER @TLover106 Fair play to @LNER , companies shouldn't have to put up with rude customers! Give the banter back! :D
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@RailDepartures
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3 years
What could this be….
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
5 years
Coming soon! - nrea display Passing services + platform stand clear message. - large clock. - integrate TFGM feed. - Translink NI feed
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
2 years
Merry Christmas from UK Departure Boards! Remember not many services running today so the boards won’t do much!
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1 year
Wow we hit the news! @RailwayQueen
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@RailwayQueen Awesome, love this clock, it's now famous! @RailDepartures will surely get a run on orders 😀
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To give the boards display more of a modern feel we have added a optional third row divider line. This is available on train, tube, tram & bus. It can be found under the 'options' section. Let us know what you think :) #PremiumFeature
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
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Found some pictures of the very first departure board I made :) (Feb 2015) It only supported 3 colours and the nre feed (no configuration)
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@RailDepartures
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All 4 colours going whilst on test :) What’s your favourite?
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@RailDepartures
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3 years
Assembling another quick batch of boards before post office closes at 12! :) New design far easier to assemble :)
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1 year
Gonna take a while to flash all these…. :D
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@RailDepartures
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4 years
Sneak preview of a new product coming this year. P3 Next GEN All the fantastic features of the new P5 Next GEN but in a smaller P3 frame :) We aim to have this ready end of this year. We will also be dropping the older style P4/P25 once current batch sold has sold out!
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@RailDepartures
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Is everyone ready for @RealtimeTrains North Pole International service? Swap to RTT feed at 6pm and select North Pole International station.
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@RailDepartures
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2 years
We got 3D models made for our products, what do you think?
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@RailDepartures
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3 years
Have we got any famous board owners/followers out there? We would really appreciate a retweet to help us grow :) Thank you :) #UKDepartureBoards
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Matt shows off the new Ruislip Lido Railway Classic departure board!
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3 years
It’s slowly coming alive :D @TfL
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@RailDepartures
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Join us at stand 22 @RidersRail Crewe show 10th/11th
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1 year
Last 17 then we are out of yellow displays.
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3 years
Desktop Departures V2 Limited stock until Q1 2022 -
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@RailDepartures
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9 months
Was a fantastic experience working with @PeteWatermanOBE @MakingTracks3 team on the model rail departure boards. We are working on a commercial version of the firmware which will interface directly with MegaPointsControllers RFID kits so anyone can connect one of our boards with…
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Making Tracks
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Check out our destination boards when you visit Making Tracks 3 @ChesterCath - they show the destinations of our model trains! This one is going to Euston ! We worked with Russell @RailDepartures to develop this RFID system.
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Reading station platform departure boards have had some sort of firmware update last night. They now show count down min instead of On time, wonder how it will work with delays?
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@RailDepartures
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You can now buy our Desktop Departures directly from @steam_museum shop. All colours available. Stop by the GWR Steam Museum for a fantastic day out.
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9 months
Visiting the fantastic @SeatonTramway today!
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@RailDepartures
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4 years
This week's Desktop Departures off to the post office :)
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@RailDepartures
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1 year
Website running a little slow tonight due to high traffic load, please give it time it will eventually load :) (same for web configuration which runs off same instance)
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
3 years
The next train to depart from platform 4 will be the 16:51 @GWRHelp service to Worcester Foregate Street.
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1 year
Not far off 1000 boards online :D
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3 years
Testing some Bluetooth Speakers :) Cheapest being £3.50! And it works great.
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5 years
Who's getting ready for Halloween :) #UKDepartureBoards #Halloween
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4 years
Desktop Departures XL Coming soon!
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3 years
Doggy approves!
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4 years
New feature! Bold font destination names on the first row! - Enable via "Use bold font on first service destination text" option. - If using large LED board its best to turn off the "1st" text to create more room.
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@RailDepartures
UK Departure Boards
3 years
New Small LED (Next Generation) board coming soon! - 60 x 11.5 x 3.5cm - 2.4ghz/5ghz wifi - wireless setup - new super slim lightweight frame - rear hanging rail mount
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@RailDepartures
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Ever wondered how you flash a ton of sd cards? Using one of these :) We can do about 15 every 5min at a click of a button. @balena_io
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@RailDepartures
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3 years
Merry Christmas, hope everyone one is having a great day :) Post your board photos :)
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2 years
What's inside the boxes? Free USB speaker to who ever gets closest guess :D
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@RailDepartures
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Little late to the party but finally had some time to watch Secrets Of The London Underground by @MrTimDunn and @siddyholloway What a Fantastic show! Looking forward to watching the remaining episodes. If you have not seen this it’s well worth a watch!
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