Real-time testing of information screens at Euston

High-definition passenger information screens are to be installed at London Euston, to enable real-time testing to take place.

The new £1.5 million electronic departure and arrival boards will be positioned in the middle of the station concourse, and will quadruple the number of screens available to waiting passengers.

Instead of one set of overhead LED screens above the entrances to the platforms, two doublesided banks of full-colour displays will be built on posts.

Computer modelling has analysed how shifting passengers’ focus from the front to the centre of the concourse can improve the flow of people at the busy West Coast Main Line terminus. LIDAR cameras will soon monitor passenger movement to put this theory to the test.

Once the trial is complete, the existing 20-year-old boards will be decommissioned and removed.