PA Announcements

[L&Y Robert]

In the pre-technology (and pre-Beeching) days porters on station platforms used to shout out the name of their stop. Usually as incomprehensibly as newspaper sellers. The man at Elslack station on the Skipton-Colne line used to shout
'Ell's slack, 'Eaven's busy.' (Slack being local dialect for short of trade).

I remember as a boy, coming home to Tod from Leeds, at a stop just out of Halifax hearing the porter shout "FUIT". "Where are we, Dad? I asked, perplexed.
"Luddendenfoot, son".

 

[trainmania100]

I was at three bridges today and the computer system which makes the automatic announcements must have been butchered some how... It was saying random words like royston and St neots (miles away, not served at three bridges) and words like fatality in sentences which didn't make any sense,.,was so funny to hear though.

 

[talldave]

I was at three bridges today and the computer system which makes the automatic announcements must have been butchered some how... It was saying random words like royston and St neots (miles away, not served at three bridges) and words like fatality in sentences which didn't make any sense,.,was so funny to hear though.

Those situations are amusing, but I always pray that the company that coded the system doesn't get let anywhere near software for aircraft!

 

[Groningen]

Some train to Epsom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A4Xy3OWozA

 

[Mordac]

In a Cross Country service down from Edinburgh a few years ago, the guard said something like "Remember no smoking, it will kill you," to general laughter.

 

[southern442]

Some train to Epsom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A4Xy3OWozA

I've had that guy before, he puts a smile on everyone's face!

 

[Blindtraveler]

In the Virgin XC era there was what I assume was an Edinburgh based TM who was Austrailian who was always very relaxed and sometimes humerous when making announcements. Dont know if he transfered to Arriva or indeed if hes still around but I recall him describing a toilet on a Voyager as inteligent once??????? Also during a short delay where the train in front had hit a cow he said it should have been a Coow as it was Scottish

 

[class387]

I once had a driver on a 377/6 on a Sutton to Victoria service who would repeat all his announcements in French.

I've heard the 'tickets and excuses' one a couple of times as well.