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Old January 14th 10, 12:17 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default It beggars belief

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:53:05 +0000
Paul Corfield wrote:
No, no - you're in your own special episode. You do realise that LUL has
commissioned a special Boltar detector and when we know you are on the
system the random failure and delay generator swings into action. It is


Well they've obviously already got a passenger count detector which when it
notices a few hundred people have been waiting on a platform for a train for
10 minutes automatically kicks off the "there is a good service on the
piccadilly/whatever line today" announcement. Perhaps theres a subliminal
messages embedded in it to make you forget about how long you've been waiting.
Or perhaps its the bloke in the control room having a laugh.

B2003