£384.99Original price was: £384.99.£369.99Current price is: £369.99.
Display live departures for all your favourite UK Train, Tube, Bus, Tram & Metro stations on your own highly customisable departure board. Measuring a massive 100cm, Just like a real station board! Hang it on your wall for that great station experience. Ideal for the home or office. Makes a fantastic gift for all those rail enthusiasts out there. New internal 3 Watt speaker for audio station announcements. Support’s train times via National Rail live departures.
Comes with one month Premium subscription for free.
Subscriptions
You can use all of our boards without a subscription, however if you want to enjoy some of the great extra features we've developed then you'll need to choose a subscription.
Audio announcements require an active Premium subscription.
Yes, the easiest way to do this is to send the other account a gift voucher. The other account can then purchase the voice pack(s) using the gift vouchers credit.
Make sure you are running an active Premium subscription or trial.
Make sure the voice pack was purchased on the same account the Departure Board is attached to.
Check the audio is actived under the audio section on the ‘Device’ tab on the web configuration.
Check the device type is correct. Ie Desktop Departures will be ‘Internal Speaker’ or ‘Bluetooth Speaker’ and the Classic & Pro will either be ‘External USB Speaker’ or ‘Bluetooth Speaker’ depending what speaker you have attached.
Yes, once purchased and there is a active Premium Subscription the departure board will be automatically installed. Give the board about 15min for this process to complete with the board turned on. You can view the status of the installation via the device tab audio section on the web configuration page.
No, the Classic & Pro now have internal speakers but still support either an external Bluetooth or USB speaker.
If you purchased a Classic after 20/08/2024 the board will have a internal 2 Watt speaker built in. You can still connect to Bluetooth or USB speaker if you prefer.
If you purchased a Pro after 12/12/2024 the board will have an internal 3 Watt speaker built in. You can still connect to Bluetooth or USB speaker if you prefer.
Yes, the boards can be registered with any valid UK Departure Boards account not just the one the board was purchased on.
Remember the account the board does end up being registered with will need to have any optional voice packs or subscriptions purchased on it for the board to see these extra features.
You can also send any additional accounts gift vouchers if you don’t want to add payment information to the account itself.
Yes, the boards will pretty much connect to any WiFi network available as long as it supports a network name & password. If using a iPhone make sure the apostrophe is removed from the hot spot name this can be done via ‘Settings->General->About->Name’
No, only one active station is displayed at a time. But there Premium subscription features to make the board automatically cycle between different stations.
Yes we should do! You can 100% find out by seeing if it is listed on our board web configuration app. Please note Northern Ireland is currently not supported (But we are looking into it)
The board will talk to our servers via your WiFi connection and then talk to a variety of external data feeds to receive the relevant departure information.
Yes, the Desktop Departures is best suited for a bedside table or kitchen top. The Classic and Pros can be placed on top of furniture and come with mounting kits so they can be wall mounted as well.
Basically just the size, the Classic is 60cm and has an clear acrylic window and the Pro is 100cm. They both have the exact same functionality and run the same firmware.
Yes, as long as you have access to WiFi the board will work. It will only show UK time and services though. The board comes with a uk style wall plug power supply which can be run on 110v to 240v. You can swap this with any local 5v 3amp dc jack wall plug with the correct plug for your country.
Yes, the easiest way to do this is to send the other account a gift voucher. The other account can then purchase the subscription using the gift vouchers credit.
You can resubscribe to an existing subscription by going to the My Account section of the website. Then under ‘My Subscriptions’ find the subscription you would like to resubscribe to (usually the latest one) and click ‘Resubscribe’
If you come across any errors or need any assistance please email us at [email protected].
The board is unable to connect to your network. Most common reasons for this are..
Check for incorrect network password (They are case sensitive)
When selecting your network from the network selection screen during WiFi setup make sure the selected networks name appeared in the password pop up dialog / on the departure board screen SSID: label, if not repeat the WiFi setup process.
Check the router supports a 2.4ghz network and is on WiFi channel between 1 and 6 and any ‘smart channel swapping’ or ‘optimised network’ features are disabled.
Sometimes rebooting the router and then reconnecting the board will fix the connection issue.
If the board completely refuses to connect to the network (very rare but does occasionally happen) One solution is to use a WiFi repeater or Wifi Extender to resolve this problem. The WiFi repeater will connect to your router and the board connects to the WiFi repeater. Another solution is to use a WiFi extender which can simply plug into your router via ethernet and create a new 2.4ghz WiFi network for the board to connect to.
The Classic / Pro can also be connected via Pro / Classic USB ethernet adaptors if the board is close to a router and you want a direct wired connection. You can also make this setup wireless via wireless ethernet extenders i.e. TP-Link AV1000.
Press the WIFI reset button for 3 seconds to put the board back into WIFI setup mode. On Desktop Departures this is the little black button at the back. On the Classic it is the black button on the side near the power connector. On the Pro it is the green button on the side near the power connector.
The departure boards take 15-20sec to boot when plugged in. They will have a completely blank screen within this time window. There will be a lit green led on the end cap to indicate the board is receiving power. If you do not see this or the board does not boot after about 60 sec please contact support. Check you are using the original supplied 5v 3a power supply which came with the board.
If you are just seeing a spinning connecting icon.
First reset the board back into WiFi setup mode by press and holding the Wifi reset button, this can be found on the back of the Desktop Departures and the side of the Classic / Pro. Once the board has booted again try and connect back to the ‘DepartureBoard’ network.
First make sure you are connected to the ‘DepartureBoard’ Wifi network on the same device correctly (You can see a blue tick next to the network name and not a spinning connecting icon).
Refresh the page a few times, occasionally it does not load straight away and a page refresh brings it up.
Double check exactly 10.0.0.1:8080 has been typed into the devices browser. Make sure digit zero’s have been used not letter O’s.
Sometimes turning off the phones GSM/phone data can help.
Some antivirus software ie ‘Intego’Â etc.. can block the 10.0.0.1:8080 url, try temporally disabling them.
The boards can struggle with some newer Android devices, We recommend using iPhones / Laptops where possible.
1 review for Pro Departure Board
Rated 5 out of 5
Alan Greenwood (verified owner)–
A brilliant full-scale product just like a real one, and an item that will grace any home, business, office, pub, cafe etc.
The Pro board compliments my small desktop version, so I have opposite ends of the size scale. The pro is a great talking piece, mounted in my office, it features in my TEAMS meetings now, and everyone is always delighted to see it. I have custom station messages set to deliver totally bespoke scrolling messages, relevant to the meeting I’m having. These appear at the interval I set, and behave exactly as station messages. All train info continues as normal and it is a great and unique attention grabber for a business.
For this feature you would need the premium subscription which is worth every penny as it gives you full control over so many things.
I also have the voice pack and an external USB speaker, but I keep the sound off most of the time. Switching off sound is a quick job, either turn off in the user interface or unplug the speaker..
You absolutely don’t need the premium subscription to get all the basic functionality of any station board, but it gives you almost endless customisation possibilities for the price of a pint if you do have it..
If you like trains or just appreciate a great and truly innovative gadget, you should absolutely have one of these.
I can’t recommend the pro board highly enough..
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On our Making Tracks layout we’ve got 3 fantastic departure boards, the large one showing real time information from Milton Keynes Central and 2 medium boards showing the destinations of our model trains – simply magical!
Railcam UK and UKDB have for many years been providing our little departure board widget, buried deep within our live signalling diagrams. The physical boards are the next level though and we recommend them wholeheartedly to any gadget freak or rail enthusiast (or both).
Alan Greenwood (verified owner) –
A brilliant full-scale product just like a real one, and an item that will grace any home, business, office, pub, cafe etc.
The Pro board compliments my small desktop version, so I have opposite ends of the size scale. The pro is a great talking piece, mounted in my office, it features in my TEAMS meetings now, and everyone is always delighted to see it. I have custom station messages set to deliver totally bespoke scrolling messages, relevant to the meeting I’m having. These appear at the interval I set, and behave exactly as station messages. All train info continues as normal and it is a great and unique attention grabber for a business.
For this feature you would need the premium subscription which is worth every penny as it gives you full control over so many things.
I also have the voice pack and an external USB speaker, but I keep the sound off most of the time. Switching off sound is a quick job, either turn off in the user interface or unplug the speaker..
You absolutely don’t need the premium subscription to get all the basic functionality of any station board, but it gives you almost endless customisation possibilities for the price of a pint if you do have it..
If you like trains or just appreciate a great and truly innovative gadget, you should absolutely have one of these.
I can’t recommend the pro board highly enough..