This driver decided to wait at the station until someone could give him a paper copy of the timetable. However, just before his departure the driver went to check the schedule on his tablet but couldn’t because he forgot the password. a driver was getting ready to depart from JR Ishinomaki Station in neighboring Miyazaki Prefecture, bound for Sendai. This is actually the second time in as many months such a delay occurred. According to reports drivers are given multiple tablets for different tasks, and in this case the driver lost track of the timetable tablet in particular.
The cumulative total of these checks was 23 minutes by the time it reached Mito and some 60 passengers were said to have been affected by the delay. The delay was caused by the driver having to repeatedly check the timetable during stops at stations such as Asakanagamori and Yayagawa along the way to the final destination. ▼ If this video from seven years ago holds true today, JR East likely issued iPada which would go into increasingly long lockdowns with each failed attempt to unlock However, his attempts to unlock it were unsuccessful as his passwords were rejected. on 20 August and about three minutes into his route he went to his tablet to check the schedule. However, when one driver left Koiryama Station at 6:18 p.m. Last June JR East digitized the timetables issued to train drivers by instead giving them a tablet that displayed the correct arrival and departure times and could be updated automatically. But this time it was simply the result of one train driver forgetting the password to unlock his tablet. Usually these kinds of longer delays are caused by highly unusual situations like a bird flying inside the train or a cute dog on the tracks that refuses cookies.
So, when a train racks up a delay of 23 minutes it’s usually a pretty big deal here. Thousands of commuters rely on it so much that differences of less than a minute can cause a disruption and result in a company apology. The punctuality of trains in Japan is sacred. Growing pains of digitizing trains in Japan.
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