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York station announcement mentioning the wrong TOC?

ab2109

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Was at York station around 5pm today waiting for a train, when I hear an announcement that "the 17:09 CrossCountry service to Sunderland has been cancelled" (when it should have said Grand Central). Strangely it also had a different time to what it should've been (16:52). Has anyone ever heard something like this before?
 
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louis97

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The train was actually in the system as a CrossCountry service, so that is why it was announced as such.
 

1D53

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XC Control provide Control services to Grand Central, I assume someone has accidentally used the wrong Darwin account for the GC service!
 

YorksLad12

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Was at York station around 5pm today waiting for a train, when I hear an announcement that "the 17:09 CrossCountry service to Sunderland has been cancelled" (when it should have said Grand Central). Strangely it also had a different time to what it should've been (16:52). Has anyone ever heard something like this before?
I saw that, it was on the screens as well! Confused me for a minute, but not enough to slow me down. There was a GC set in P5 heading south, which is probably why I didn't ponder it long (that and the heat).
 

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