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lancededcena said:
I'm not sure this has been covered, but interesting none-the-less

I was browsing YouTube for trains when I stumbled upon Chitlern Railways announcement in Chinese. Original video is from Lossy Lossnitzer



Can someone please explain? I'm a bit confused!
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I suspect they get a lot of Chinese visitors to Bicester Village (recently downgraded from 'Town' status ;))
 
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I love it when they do multi lingo signs at some stations (St Pancras, Southall). It gives the great and powerful sense of diversity and multiculturalism in modern Britain.
 
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If tiny little stations in the Aso caldera on Kyushu island in Japan can have the station name in both Japanese and "English" why do we only do the reverse at Bicester? Is it only Bicester? Doesn't Southall have Urdu signs as well?

OK, so I'm not suggesting every station should have multiple languages, given the number of languages now spoken in the UK it would be impractical. I'm actually asking a question. Can you get a map that shows the station names in other scripts?
 
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J-2739 said:
I love it when they do multi lingo signs at some stations (St Pancras, Southall). It gives the great and powerful sense of diversity and multiculturalism in modern Britain.
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As a matter of interest: is the feeling you get at any station in Wales exactly the same, or different in any way?
 
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È pericoloso sporgersi. Only found on the doors of unconverted HST sets.:D
 
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Hartington said:
If tiny little stations in the Aso caldera on Kyushu island in Japan can have the station name in both Japanese and "English" why do we only do the reverse at Bicester? Is it only Bicester? Doesn't Southall have Urdu signs as well?

OK, so I'm not suggesting every station should have multiple languages, given the number of languages now spoken in the UK it would be impractical. I'm actually asking a question. Can you get a map that shows the station names in other scripts?
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Handforth has somewhat varied signage!

(Includes Chinese and Irish Gaelic.)
 
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Hartington said:
If tiny little stations in the Aso caldera on Kyushu island in Japan can have the station name in both Japanese and "English" why do we only do the reverse at Bicester? Is it only Bicester? Doesn't Southall have Urdu signs as well?

OK, so I'm not suggesting every station should have multiple languages, given the number of languages now spoken in the UK it would be impractical. I'm actually asking a question. Can you get a map that shows the station names in other scripts?
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This is the signage at Southall.
 
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Didn't slam door EMU's used mainly on Dover/Folkestone services use to have the no smoking signs & the don't flush the toilet in the station signs in French (and possibly German?) As well? There were also French anti Rabies posters too if I recall.
 
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Didn't slam door EMU's used mainly on Dover/Folkestone services use to have the no smoking signs & the don't flush the toilet in the station signs in French (and possibly German?) As well? There were also French anti Rabies posters too if I recall.
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Seems somewhat appropriate for some of those ex Connex VEPs! :lol:

Moreton In Marsh station on the FGW network is another with Bi-Lingual station signs - English and Japanese.
 
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yorkie said:
I suspect they get a lot of Chinese visitors to Bicester Village (recently downgraded from 'Town' status ;))
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The new station was sponsored by the retail outlet of that name. It attracts large numbers of visitors from China and is advertised in Taiwan as a UK destination.

York station certainly used to have French and German signage such as Ausgang.
 
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Moreton-in-Marsh has Japanese signage IIRC, due to the sheer number of Japanese tourists wanting to visit the Cotswolds.
 
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matt_world2004 said:
I bet the chinese are dissapointed when they get there.
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I had a 30 minute turn round there today and by the looks of the people from all over the world who were queuing to get in to the stores, they looked far from disappointed. But my personal opinion of my first ever visit to Bicester Village is i wont be going back in a hurry......
 
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