destination board
English
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Beijing Ulaanbataar Moscow train destination board
Noun
destination board (plural destination boards)
- (rail transport) 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.
- 1962 July, “Talking of Trains: The new all-line timetable”, in Modern Railways, page 11:
- [...] 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?
- A departure board or indicator at a railway station.