London Banter - View Single Post - "This train is being held here awaiting signal clearance"

Arthur Figgis · July 25th 06, 05:59 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 25 Jul 2006 01:22:10 -0700, wrote:

* My personal favourite being loud platform announcement "This train is
going to CHARING CROSS", combined with in-train sign "CHARING CROSS",
plus in-train announcement "This train is going to CHARING CROSS",
followed by passenger asking of fellow passengers, "Is this train going
to Charing Cross?".

Maybe he was from Glasgow, and confused?

The train I've just been on was being announced as going to Victoria.
Being a regular, I knew it was vastly more likely to be a London
Bridge train with that stock, at that time and in that place.

The automated announcements are all to often either irrelevent, so I
tune them out and miss any with real information in them, or just
plain wrong ("the next station is X" repeated at every station). The
human announcements have tortured phrasing and/or an accent I don't
personally understand once it has been through the PA system.

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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK