destination board

plural destination boards

1. rail transportA 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.

   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.

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

   1 more example

   [...] 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?

   1962 July, “Talking of Trains: The new all-line timetable”, in Modern Railways, page 11

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