Saturday, September 28, 2019

Shape Symbols in MRT trains

I know these shape symbols on the bottom of the in-train ad panels are for identification purposes. But they didn't explain how. So I've been taking shots and marked down the train numbers whenever I can for comparison.  Now I know that they are in fact binary codes. Omit the 8 (which I supposed all trains used for Circle Line starts with 8), whereas the last digit (1,2,3) are the carriage numbers.

Following is the chart :


Mystery solved. Yay!
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  1. AnonymousSeptember 24, 2022 at 11:41 AM

    thanks for this i was wondering the same... how do you do the binary? is it rectangle = 1 and circle = 0?

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