Re: Evocative sights/sounds/smells on the modern railway
- From: "Robert Payne" <rnpayne@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 1 Apr 2007 12:18:47 -0700
On 31 Mar, 17:11, "Ken Ward" <ken.g1...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Robert Payne" <rnpa...@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 29 Mar, 23:27, "EE507" <s.d.fi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Did the automated male and female announcers with Queen's English
accents have names? He was used all over the SR at least, from as
early as I can remember (1980s) right through to the dawn of modern
PIS systems. I think he may have survived at Tonbridge until 2-3
years ago,
The announcers you remember hearing on the recordings back in the
1980s would have been Robert Lister, Angela Peberdy and Julie Berry.
You can hear them at
http://groups.google.com/group/Railway-recorded-announcements
The Sussex Scot announcement Clapham_Junction_050.wav is well worth a listen
but, did he really think Oxenholme and Lake District were seperate stops?
Ken Ward.
The error with 'Oxenholme' and 'The Lake District' announced as two
separate stations on the Sussex Scot announcement would most likely
have been due to a typing error on the script supplied by the Station
Manager. Before the advent of automated information systems which
receive their calling patterns on a daily basis from the main
database, every time the timetable changed and there was a train that
then had a different calling pattern to one that was already on the
station's recorded announcement system, announcement scripts would be
submitted to the company (in this particular case Infomat) who
supplied the recordings. Apart from grammatical errors, basically
whatever was on the script was recorded and the company would just
have assumed that a new station called 'The Lake District' had been
opened! A similar error occurred on a recording at Woking in the late
1980s when Queenstown Road Battersea was announced as two separate
stations.
However on the plus side, because the scripts were mostly produced
locally, it meant that the format of the announcements tended to vary
from station to station as opposed to all being generated from one
central computer with little or no variation no matter where you are,
which is now the current situation.
Robert.
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