Taken on a trip to England a while back. Perhaps the indicated service conditions were so rare that this part of the program never received adequate testing!
Update! Reader Gabriel Sharp offers the following:
Hey, I work for London Underground and to be fair the second one is not actually one of our Electronic Service Update Boards - it's an advertising display!
I'm surprised that you weren't actually arrested for taking a picture. Because, you know, almost anything that you do on the Underground is probably illegal. :-)
Lonson?
What an odd hack -- to use the display sideways. I wonder whose idea that was?
Hey, I work for London Underground and to be fair the second one is not actually one of our Electronic Service Update Boards - it's an advertising display!
I'm surprised that you weren't actually arrested for taking a picture. Because, you know, almost anything that you do on the Underground is probably illegal. :-)