Meaning of destination board | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A board attached to the side of a railway carriage which indicates where the train is going to. More modern variants can be a dot-matrix display panel.
2. A departure board or indicator at a railway station.

Equivalents

Examples

“At Kingsbridge, the bilingualism of the Irish Republic was evident in the tickets, the station notices, and the neat destination boards on the 10.40 a.m. express to Cork.”

“[...] why not show in the train columns and notes the four-character code numbers, which are so useful, amongst other purposes, in helping the passenger identify his train at stations, now that fewer coaches bear destination boards?”

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