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destination board

noun

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  1. A board attached to the side of a railway carriage which indicates where the train is…

    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.

    • 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?

  2. A departure board or indicator at a railway station.

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