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Windows Screensaver

Bring the clatter of a station departure board to your desk.

A split-flap departure board, in the style of the classic railway station and airport boards.

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Every feature works. A small trial caption shows on screen until you buy a licence.

  • Railway station or airport board
  • A live timetable that runs on the real clock
  • Delays, platform changes and cancellations
  • Every character is a real, clattering flap
  • Your own title, colours and font

For Windows 11 · departure-board-screensaver.zip · 72 KB

See it in action

An airport board in the Blue board preset
An airport board in the Blue board preset
A railway station board with its own title, in the Amber preset
A railway station board with its own title, in the Amber preset

All the drama of the departures hall

Station or airport

Choose a railway board with times, destinations and platforms, or an airport board with flights, gates and remarks.

A timetable that runs

Departures leave at their expected time on the real clock, the rows move up, and a new one joins the bottom.

Just like the real thing

Every so often a train is delayed, changes platform, makes up time or is cancelled. Flights board, get a final call and close.

Real split flaps

Every character steps through the letters one flap at a time until it reaches the one it needs, with an optional clatter sound.

Your own title

Show DEPARTURES, your company name or anything else up to 24 characters, with a flip clock alongside.

Your colours

Pick the character, flap and background colours, or start from the Classic, Amber, Clarke, Blue board, Station green and Retro presets.

Settings

Click Settings… in Windows' Screen Saver Settings to make the Departure Board Screensaver your own. Your choices are saved for your Windows account.

The Departure Board Screensaver settings, with a live preview
The Departure Board Screensaver settings, with a live preview
Option What it does
Style Railway station or airport
Title Up to 24 characters: letters, numbers and . - : / & '
Rows 4 to 14 departures
Activity Calm, Normal or Busy: how often trains or flights leave, and how often things change
Flap speed Slow, Normal or Fast
Clock Show a clock in the title row, in 12 or 24-hour time
Flap sound A clatter while the flaps are moving, on the primary display only. Off to begin with
Colours Character, flap and background colours, plus Classic, Amber, Clarke, Blue board, Station green and Retro presets
Font Any installed font. The default is Bahnschrift SemiBold
Board size 40 to 100% of the screen
Brightness 20 to 100%
Displays Primary display only (the others go black), or all displays, each with its own timetable

Perfect for

  • Railway and aviation enthusiasts
  • Travel agents and transport businesses
  • Offices and reception areas with a screen on show
  • Second monitors that are often left idle
  • Anyone who loves the sound of a split-flap board

Install in four easy steps

  1. Download the zip, then right-click it and choose Extract All…
  2. Copy Departure Board.scr into C:\Windows\System32. Windows will ask for permission, so click Continue.
  3. Type screen saver into the Start menu search and open Change screen saver.
  4. Choose Departure Board from the list, click Settings… to customise it, then click OK.

Just want a quick look first? Right-click Departure Board.scr and choose Test to see it full screen, or Configure to open its settings.

Frequently asked questions

No. The timetable is made up, but it runs on the real clock: departures leave at their expected time and new ones join the bottom of the board, so it always looks live.

Yes. Change the title to anything up to 24 characters, such as your company name, using letters, numbers and a few punctuation marks.

Only if you want it to. The flap sound is off to begin with. Switch it on in the settings for a clatter whenever the flaps move.

Departure Board is free to download and try, with every feature working. Until you buy a licence, a small "Departure Board trial" caption shows in a corner of the screen, moving every couple of minutes. Click Buy a licence in the settings, then Enter licence key… with the key from your receipt email to remove it.

Yes. Click Deactivate on this PC in the settings, then enter the same key on your other computer.

Yes. Windows SmartScreen shows this warning for new programs it hasn't seen many people download yet. Click More info, check the file is Departure Board.scr, then click Run anyway. It's a single, self-contained file that doesn't change anything else on your computer.

Windows only lists the screen savers it finds in System32 (plus the one currently selected). If you install it from your Downloads folder instead, it disappears from the list as soon as you choose a different screen saver.

Choose a different screen saver, then delete Departure Board.scr from C:\Windows\System32. That's all - there's nothing else to uninstall.

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It's free to try, it's small, and it takes a minute to install.

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