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Old August 4th 08, 11:19 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Rupert Candy Rupert Candy is offline
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On Aug 3, 6:57*pm, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 09:52:38 -0700 (PDT), MIG
Maybe the voice says "Crystal Palace" every time it doesn't know what
to say?


It reminds me of the SWT 450s which, while the display was showing
"all seats on this service are standard class" (or something like
that), the voice ominously announced "One".


I've not seen or heard anything that resembles a default message on an
I-Bus equipped vehicle. *As London Central are still mid way through
their conversion sounds to me like a system fault or more likely the
driver has input incorrect trip and destination details in the system.


And AFAICT there's no stop called "Crystal Palace". The stop by the
station is "Crystal Palace Station" and the bus turning area is
"Crystal Palace Parade". So the plot thickens - it seems to have
grabbed a destination and turned it into a next stop announcement...