destination board

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d

Noun

destination board (plural destination boards)

1. (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.
   • 1955 May, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “An Irish Journey—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 297:

     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.

   • 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?

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