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How often driver need to make public announcement?
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driver9000
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I think I last made an announcement in 2010. It's not my job to make them as I work Guarded trains.
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Best driver's announcements I heard during my career:
"Someone send thar trolley dolly to gerrus a brew"
"Myyyyyytholmroyyyyyyd", in a strong Cardiff accent (fairly helpful, if indecipherable - I was out doing tickets).
"Err.. Hello. Guard to the front please. Now. Could be a foxtrot india romeo echo."
"Someone send thar trolley dolly to gerrus a brew"
"Myyyyyytholmroyyyyyyd", in a strong Cardiff accent (fairly helpful, if indecipherable - I was out doing tickets).
"Err.. Hello. Guard to the front please. Now. Could be a foxtrot india romeo echo."
Best one I heard about.
Driver makes a 'cab to cab' to the Guard.
Driver : Can you grab me a newspaper on your way through.
Guard : Sure, no problem, which one do you want ?
Driver : Anything with tits in.
Driver was on the PA. I still find it amusing to this day. (wasn't me)
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If it's a 142/4 150/3/5/6/8 chances are, the regular fault of the ageing PA buttons - crosswiring with the Cab to Cab circuit was a regular one, with often humorous results.... one where the handset button was stuck in, a flatulent minder driver with his 'rather aggrieved' trainee, and the MD sat in first class. You couldn't write it. :P
That is BRILLIANT!
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Where?
On a class 800 trip recently the driver overruled the Train Manager (in effect the guard) re the doors that would open at the next station - all done over the PA.
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I assume you mean it the TOC you work for then rather than what you hear as a passenger?
Bromley boy
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Driving DOO trains, there are no hard and fast rules and quite a bit of discretion.
It’s good practice to make them at key stations, “last opportunity to change for station X, Y, Z”. People no longer listen to the automatic announcements because there are so many of them, but tend to listen to a human voice which breaks the monotony.
Other than that, advising passengers as to delays/out of course delays as far as possible, when safe and appropriate to do so. Certainly if I was held at a red for more than a couple of minutes, I’d make an announcement.
It’s good practice to make them at key stations, “last opportunity to change for station X, Y, Z”. People no longer listen to the automatic announcements because there are so many of them, but tend to listen to a human voice which breaks the monotony.
Other than that, advising passengers as to delays/out of course delays as far as possible, when safe and appropriate to do so. Certainly if I was held at a red for more than a couple of minutes, I’d make an announcement.
There are some very hard and fast rules when driving DOO. There are a few strict caveats that apply.
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Not the way I was taught
.The closest thing to a rule was not to make announcements if running on cautionary aspects, approaching buffer stops etc. Although even here some latitude to use discretion applies (eg you’ll never be entering a terminal station on a green, but can make an announcement when appropriate).
My manager ideally likes to see announcements:
- beginning of trip;
- at key junctions;
- possibly approaching terminal although this depends, not if advancing red to red before the buffers.
The general approach is make announcements where safe and appropriate. It always comes second to driving.
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Not the way I was taught
The closest thing to a rule was not to make announcements if running on cautionary aspects, approaching buffer stops etc. Although even here some latitude to use discretion applies (eg you’ll never be entering a terminal station on a green, but can make an announcement when appropriate).
My manager ideally likes to see announcements:
- beginning of trip;
- at key junctions;
- possibly approaching terminal although this depends, not if advancing red to red before the buffers.
The general approach is make announcements where safe and appropriate. It always comes second to driving.
So you have to do announcements even though there are automatic announcements?
Bromley boy
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So you have to do announcements even though there are automatic announcements?
Yes. The theory behind this being that there are now so many automated announcements that they are subconciously tuned out as background noise. Making more manual announcements as a solution to the problem of too many automatic announcements seems curious, but there is a logic to it. A human voice over the tannoy makes people take notice.
As evidenced by the fact a manual announcement (“this train is now fast to X”) is guaranteed to get a few people jumping off, even though the calling pattern has been visually displayed and automatically orally recited at every station call up to that point in the journey.
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