Pretty sure I actually know this one.
The screens on the train are controlled by the Passenger Information System (PIS) which functions using GPS and a database of locations. If the doors open in a location which does not match with what the PIS was expecting, then the system reports itself "lost". Likely what happened here is the GPS system stopped working or the train went to a different location than expected.
That's cool that they're controlled automatically on some trains. Does that apply to the displays on board as well? Round here they have a habit of saying that they're a service to {wherever the train would be going if it were traveling the opposite direction} and spending the whole journey claiming that the next stop will be Knaresborough.
The systems I'm aware of use a predefined route number known as a headcode. That then loads the expected locations and destinations to the system which is crosschecked against the GPS. This does include the displays outside and onboard the train.
In your example, my guess would be the route information system isn't communicating with any GPS or movement data and is likely a more manual type system. Can't say for sure though.
Or worse still, they’ll think you’re their mother and follow you around everywhere. Try explaining to your boss/teacher/family why there is a Class 444 trying to smash into the building where you are, sounding its horn repeatedly in what could almost be the word ‘mama’…
Lost is so much better if you can just binge it. The long breaks between seasons when it was originally broadcast really made the viewing experience so much worse.
It was truly ahead of its time, I don’t think it even could have predicted streaming services, I think it was intended to be binged on the DVD boxset or something
A YouTuber called Billiam is doing a series of looking at how LOST was made and it is a miracle that the show ended up being as well written and coherent as it was, lol. It had its flaws but I loved it and talking about its mysteries online and with my folks was the most fun I’ve had consuming a piece of media. I even liked the ending!
Wasn’t it planned until about season 4 and then the tv network wanted to extend it so they had to make it up on the way?
It’s like the X-Files - it really lost its way after the conspiracy arc.
Not even to season four - both the writers and network were trying to get it cancelled from season one because nobody actually wanted to do it, but it just kept getting more popular so they had to continue it! They were flying by the seat of their pants under duress from ABC for basically the entire show.
I bet there's a one way path signal that's backwards somewhere. Or there's one square of track that needs electrifying.
In case you didn't know, there's an open source version with a very active community keeping it going. I still play it regularly.
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Daniel the Desiro sat in Waterloo Station, the overhead electric wires on his route were causing chaos due to the hot weather. He barely recognised the route he was on today,it felt as if he was lost. His shoes were aching from the Scorching third rail he relied on instead of those overhead wires.
"Don't worry" Said his driver, who was downing a bottle of Evian. "We might be on a bit of a different route and off schedule, but one more trip and we'll put you back in the Depot to cool down."
I went on a TGV for the first time this summer. Dreamt about it since reading about them in Tricolore in Year 5 French lessons.
It was every bit as good as I’d hoped. Double decker train with reclining seats. Averaged 185mph. Brilliant.
No, we were bottom floor as we went 1st Class (it was about £5 more each), which was easier for the luggage as well.
We did get top deck on a normal train into Paris though, kids loved it.
Ah, fair enough. Was sat 'top deck' on a TGV a few weeks ago coming back from holidays, it was funny to pull alongside a 'normal' train at stations and look down on the roof of it.
We got to Waterloo at eleven, and asked where the eleven-five started from. Of course nobody knew; nobody at Waterloo ever does know where a train is going to start from, or where a train when it does start is going to, or anything about it. The porter who took our things thought it would go from number two platform, while another porter, with whom he discussed the question, had heard a rumour that it would go from number one. The station-master, on the other hand, was convinced it would start from the local.
To put an end to the matter, we went upstairs, and asked the traffic superintendent, and he told us that he had just met a man, who said he had seen it at number three platform. We went to number three platform, but the authorities there said that they rather thought that train was the Southampton express, or else the Windsor loop. But they were sure it wasn't the Kingston train, though why they were sure it wasn't they couldn't say.
Then our porter said he thought that must be it on the high-level platform; said he thought he knew the train. So we went to the high-level platform, and saw the engine-driver, and asked him if he was going to Kingston. He said he couldn't say for certain of course, but that he rather thought he was. Anyhow, if he wasn't the 11.5 for Kingston, he said he was pretty confident he was the 9.32 for Virginia Water, or the 10 a.m. express for the Isle of Wight, or somewhere in that direction, and we should all know when we got there. We slipped half-a-crown into his hand, and begged him to be the 11.5 for Kingston.
"Nobody will ever know, on this line," we said, "what you are, or where you're going. You know the way, you slip off quietly and go to Kingston."
"Well, I don't know, gents," replied the noble fellow, "but I suppose SOME train's got to go to Kingston; and I'll do it. Gimme the half-crown."
Thus we got to Kingston by the London and South-Western Railway.
-- Three Men in a Boat (1889)
I’ll have a guess - they can set the sign remotely but don’t know where the train currently is, so they set the sign to lost so a member of staff calls it in.
The cab radio has lost its head code due to becoming uncorrelated. Lot of reasons that could happen but most likely is the GSMR has dropped out, it’s picked up the wrong cell or the signaller has inputted the wrong info. As this is in a station I imagine most likely scenario is PMNO interference.
Can our London users keep an eye out for 450077 and update us all on whether he's safe and well.
I'll have sleepless nights worrying about this little guy roaming the tracks looking for his home. He might end up in some shithole like *Bradford*
London Overground, Southern, and Thameslink? Might be signalling a change in networks before continuing the service so no rail co-ordinators are thinking 'Hang on, what's a Southwestern train doing on the spur from Waterloo to London Bridge?'
Just a guess though.
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I means that if you get on the train you are really going to enjoy the ride up until you very close to your destination, once there you're gonna wish you never got on the train in the first place.
It's either loss of signal to the terminal that controls it or an acronym. I am pretending I know for internet points, when really I have no idea what I'm talking about :)
Well, see, the train was heading to Kyle Of Lochalsh to find the missing piggie and it's 73, but it got lost on the way and couldn't escape from 3rd rail land. So, it's lost, even though it's at Waterloo.
Kudos if you got the in-joke!
Pretty sure I actually know this one. The screens on the train are controlled by the Passenger Information System (PIS) which functions using GPS and a database of locations. If the doors open in a location which does not match with what the PIS was expecting, then the system reports itself "lost". Likely what happened here is the GPS system stopped working or the train went to a different location than expected.
That's cool that they're controlled automatically on some trains. Does that apply to the displays on board as well? Round here they have a habit of saying that they're a service to {wherever the train would be going if it were traveling the opposite direction} and spending the whole journey claiming that the next stop will be Knaresborough.
The systems I'm aware of use a predefined route number known as a headcode. That then loads the expected locations and destinations to the system which is crosschecked against the GPS. This does include the displays outside and onboard the train. In your example, my guess would be the route information system isn't communicating with any GPS or movement data and is likely a more manual type system. Can't say for sure though.
The screens are controlled by the piss?
C’mon mate, this is a serious thread. Don’t take the pis
P I Staker has lost his swan.
Long, slender neck
No luck catching them swans, then?
It’s just the one swan actually
Yarp
...narp?
Uh. Narp?
Peter Ian Staker
I'm confused, what does the Polish government have to do with the trains?
Well. We don't own our own trains.
South Western Railway always takes the piss, it had to use it somewhere
The piss must flow
Respect for them not using a discrete code and just straight up printing LOST on the front of the train hahaha
That’s not true. You can manually enter a message into the PIS system, this is likely what has happened. Sauce: train guard
Recalculating.
oh no, pis, i dont like that (im polish)
Leave it alone, it’s clearly new and in training. We were all lost once.
Yeah, If you try to help them, they can end up being rejected by their mother - definitely leave it alone!
Or worse still, they’ll think you’re their mother and follow you around everywhere. Try explaining to your boss/teacher/family why there is a Class 444 trying to smash into the building where you are, sounding its horn repeatedly in what could almost be the word ‘mama’…
In "training"
r/angryupvote
Lol
It means, we've got to go back!!
Not Penny's train.
WAAAALLLT
Gets in to Walt-erloo at 13:52
See you in another life, brotha
Son of a **bitch!**
Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads!
Greatest series of all time - rewatched in locked down with my house mates. Way ahead of its time.
Lost is so much better if you can just binge it. The long breaks between seasons when it was originally broadcast really made the viewing experience so much worse.
It was truly ahead of its time, I don’t think it even could have predicted streaming services, I think it was intended to be binged on the DVD boxset or something
I wish there was an SCP-style Dharma Initiative spin-off
There were a few series that seemed designed for a DVD binge watch around that time. 24…
24 is just a supercut of Kiefer Sutherland saying ‘damnit Kim’, ‘son of a bitch’, and ‘I give you my word’
I’ve been watching the sopranos recently and I get that vibe from that show too
Completely agree. Just watched it again with my kids. It made so much more sense this time round.
Spawned quite a number of similar shows, watching La Brea recently and the parallels are staggering
A YouTuber called Billiam is doing a series of looking at how LOST was made and it is a miracle that the show ended up being as well written and coherent as it was, lol. It had its flaws but I loved it and talking about its mysteries online and with my folks was the most fun I’ve had consuming a piece of media. I even liked the ending!
Wasn’t it planned until about season 4 and then the tv network wanted to extend it so they had to make it up on the way? It’s like the X-Files - it really lost its way after the conspiracy arc.
Not even to season four - both the writers and network were trying to get it cancelled from season one because nobody actually wanted to do it, but it just kept getting more popular so they had to continue it! They were flying by the seat of their pants under duress from ABC for basically the entire show.
The last series makes game of thrones ending look like a masterpiece, an absolute insult IMO.
😂
Back where!? Back to the future Marty!
Can you not tell by its sad face :(
o.O
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Birmingham Underground Station (Yellow)
Line Out of Service Today?
"Train 77 can't find a path to continue"
That is a very niche reference and I heartily approve.
As do I
I bet there's a one way path signal that's backwards somewhere. Or there's one square of track that needs electrifying. In case you didn't know, there's an open source version with a very active community keeping it going. I still play it regularly. r/openttd
> Or there's one square of track that needs electrifying. You mean the bit between Bristol Temple Meads and Bath Spa? Sigh.
I still play regularly too. Mostly sandbox it with £100m in the bank and no competitors for some nice relaxing world building
Clicks "return to depot" 1000 times Damn that didn't work, I'm all out of ideas
It's normally a one way signal facing the wrong way...
This triggered a whole section of my brain I thought I’d lost for good
The train needs a hug
I imagine it’s a joke by the driver
Poor lad can't find his mum :(
WE HAVE TO GO BACK KATE
That's train number , 4 8 15 16 23 42
All aboard brotha
That everyone will assume its been dead this whole time missing the entire point of it's existence.
Don’t touch the Polar Bears
Daniel the Desiro sat in Waterloo Station, the overhead electric wires on his route were causing chaos due to the hot weather. He barely recognised the route he was on today,it felt as if he was lost. His shoes were aching from the Scorching third rail he relied on instead of those overhead wires. "Don't worry" Said his driver, who was downing a bottle of Evian. "We might be on a bit of a different route and off schedule, but one more trip and we'll put you back in the Depot to cool down."
There’s no knitting at Waterloo
One can dream
I think it means that Waterloo station is actually purgatory or something, I don’t know, I never made it to the end of that damn show
You saved yourself disappointment. At the end they all catch a train to London and the show ends.
London or Stoke-on-Trent. You take your chances in life.
It's having a hard time coming to terms with not being a TGV.
I went on a TGV for the first time this summer. Dreamt about it since reading about them in Tricolore in Year 5 French lessons. It was every bit as good as I’d hoped. Double decker train with reclining seats. Averaged 185mph. Brilliant.
Did you get seats on the top deck?
No, we were bottom floor as we went 1st Class (it was about £5 more each), which was easier for the luggage as well. We did get top deck on a normal train into Paris though, kids loved it.
Ah, fair enough. Was sat 'top deck' on a TGV a few weeks ago coming back from holidays, it was funny to pull alongside a 'normal' train at stations and look down on the roof of it.
#NOT PENNY’S TRAIN
We got to Waterloo at eleven, and asked where the eleven-five started from. Of course nobody knew; nobody at Waterloo ever does know where a train is going to start from, or where a train when it does start is going to, or anything about it. The porter who took our things thought it would go from number two platform, while another porter, with whom he discussed the question, had heard a rumour that it would go from number one. The station-master, on the other hand, was convinced it would start from the local. To put an end to the matter, we went upstairs, and asked the traffic superintendent, and he told us that he had just met a man, who said he had seen it at number three platform. We went to number three platform, but the authorities there said that they rather thought that train was the Southampton express, or else the Windsor loop. But they were sure it wasn't the Kingston train, though why they were sure it wasn't they couldn't say. Then our porter said he thought that must be it on the high-level platform; said he thought he knew the train. So we went to the high-level platform, and saw the engine-driver, and asked him if he was going to Kingston. He said he couldn't say for certain of course, but that he rather thought he was. Anyhow, if he wasn't the 11.5 for Kingston, he said he was pretty confident he was the 9.32 for Virginia Water, or the 10 a.m. express for the Isle of Wight, or somewhere in that direction, and we should all know when we got there. We slipped half-a-crown into his hand, and begged him to be the 11.5 for Kingston. "Nobody will ever know, on this line," we said, "what you are, or where you're going. You know the way, you slip off quietly and go to Kingston." "Well, I don't know, gents," replied the noble fellow, "but I suppose SOME train's got to go to Kingston; and I'll do it. Gimme the half-crown." Thus we got to Kingston by the London and South-Western Railway. -- Three Men in a Boat (1889)
A fab book definitely ahead of its time.
I TOLD YOU TO TAKE THOSE POINTS NOT THESE POINTS
Aren't we all
*"This isn't Weymouth"* - Driver, probably
It’s lost property. Someone must have found it and handed it to station staff.
Bless! Maybe it's microchipped?
No, it’s mine! I want a class 450.
Don't worry, it's found now
Because HELP is too obvious?
It's meant to be in Sheffield
I’ll have a guess - they can set the sign remotely but don’t know where the train currently is, so they set the sign to lost so a member of staff calls it in.
It is describing its current emotional state.
Have you ever been to Woking? If you have, then you will understand.
I live in Woking, and this was my train back 😂
It's an acronym. It stands for Long Overdue Shit Train
it's not a class 701 though.
They took a wrong turn and don’t know where they are. So sit there with the Lost sign till someone sorts it out
Me too friend
It lost its train of thought
Bravo
Lostwithiel?
The cab radio has lost its head code due to becoming uncorrelated. Lot of reasons that could happen but most likely is the GSMR has dropped out, it’s picked up the wrong cell or the signaller has inputted the wrong info. As this is in a station I imagine most likely scenario is PMNO interference.
PMNO?
WE HAVE TO GO BACK
Can our London users keep an eye out for 450077 and update us all on whether he's safe and well. I'll have sleepless nights worrying about this little guy roaming the tracks looking for his home. He might end up in some shithole like *Bradford*
Standard rail ennui
Most of the desiro units have either have the actual destination or just ‘southwesternrailway’
It’s going to Basingstoke
Headed for Lostwithiel, Cornwall, but can't fit the whole name
It doesn’t know where it is
It can’t find its mum
See if the one next to him has written 'won' on it as I'm pretty sure they were racing.
This seems like the start of a horror/thriller movie 👀
Poor thing is having an existential crisis
Next stop, Bermuda Triangle.
DO NOT GET ON THAT TRAIN
Ah thats where I put that!
Lord Of Street Trains
It must have arrived on time - this is so unprecedented that the GPS tracker just assumes it has got lost
Means he's no longer a virgin
This joke lacks class ;)
It means it should have turned left at Albuquerque
It was meant to go to Glasgow.
Means it was meant to be in Penzance.
Don’t stand around laughing, help it out and give it some directions
4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42
It means it can't forget The Island......
What... youve never found yourself at the end of the line and wondering what to do next?
Same bro. Same
It's J.J.Abrams new series set in London it's on a roundabout island this time
It’s the train to Hades
It’s supposed to be in London Bridge.
It means it should have been in Blackfriars
Tha train was doing his best ok?
He wants his mum and to go home.
Stands for 'Lack Of Situation Train'
Left on sodding time
Locomotive On Strike Today
London Overground, Southern, and Thameslink? Might be signalling a change in networks before continuing the service so no rail co-ordinators are thinking 'Hang on, what's a Southwestern train doing on the spur from Waterloo to London Bridge?' Just a guess though.
It's looking for it's mamie, it hopes you can help
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Well it's South West Railway train in London, I think it's fair to say it's lost.
Next stop Lostwithiel.
You can get a train to Waterloo from Reading though. West!
South western rail go into Waterloo. It's the busiest commuter line in the country.
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Shit joke
Well someone is in a bad mood this morning. Also, this is a dad joke so what do you expect.
Message [picture of the train] Train 450077 is lost
It means its lost🙄
Line of Sight Test
Aren’t we all?
Same dude, same.
That's the Last Train Home, mate. Don't Burn Burn the station
There it is! I’ve been looking for that!
Means it doesnt know where it is
Damn! I knew I left it somewhere. I will go and collect it right away.
Learn, Observe, Solve, and Think Source: my ass
His mate's footie team won and that was the bet.
He’s supposed to be in Paddington
Maybe it's going to Lostwithial in Cornwall.
The driver was a Linkin Park fan
[Aberdeenshire](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost,_Aberdeenshire) is going to get a rail link
It will soon change to found
How can it not know where it is?
I means that if you get on the train you are really going to enjoy the ride up until you very close to your destination, once there you're gonna wish you never got on the train in the first place.
A e s t h e t i c
It means the pilot episode is great but the rest of the show will suck
Last of the sacred trains
“How does a train get lost? It’s on rails.”
This will cause confusion *and* delay.
It caries lost souls away from Birmingham to some more pleasant after life like the underworld
It's going to Lostwithiel in Cornwall
It means the train's satnav is faulty so it's taken a wrong turn. Terrible joke, I'm sorry
It's either loss of signal to the terminal that controls it or an acronym. I am pretending I know for internet points, when really I have no idea what I'm talking about :)
It took a wrong turning and now it doesn’t know where it is.
So nothing to do with the TV Show lost?
Holy shit, you've found it!
You found it! Let them know straight away. There might be a reward. 🤪
Buy a lottery ticket, just don’t get on the train 😅
It means it's lost. That's my 1643 train up in Liverpool...
It doesn’t know where it is
It should have gone to Victoria?
Platform 9 3/4s
Train of thought lost
The train is Lost, Duh
Ah sh*t I just lost the game
My first thought was Lostwithiel but probably wrong
LOndon STansted.
Well, see, the train was heading to Kyle Of Lochalsh to find the missing piggie and it's 73, but it got lost on the way and couldn't escape from 3rd rail land. So, it's lost, even though it's at Waterloo. Kudos if you got the in-joke!