On May 24, 8:48*pm, MIG wrote:

On 24 May, 20:35, "Paul Scott" wrote:

MIG wrote:
Back in February I posted that standard announcements on Brockley
station were preceded by "Southern Railway on behalf of London
Overground ..."

I assume that it was/is still staffed by Southern, with new rules
imposed at a distance by LO who have no idea about the implications of
totally f*cking idiotic decisions like locking the main exit in the
rush hour.

No, I think the staff were 'TUPE'd over last September, (or it might have
been at the SN franchise change date), but the automatic and 'human' PA
announcements are still run by SN, from their existing control centre. Given
the auto announcments are fully integrated with the signalling system, you'd
expect that to take a bit of altering...

Paul S

Which corresponds to what Mizter T was saying. *Obviously I don't pay
attention to uniforms.

I think they carried on wearing their old Southern uniforms for quite
some time, until fairly recently perhaps.


While I generally see little reason for TOC names padding out
announcements in an integrated network, It was actually slightly less
jarring than when station announcements in LM land, made by the same
LM voice from the same control centre say "Southern Railway
apologises ..." when the Southern services are delayed by the same
problems as the LM ones.

On the WCML it sounds like it should be "Network Rail apologises..."
much of the time (what with various signalling failures), at the
moment at least.