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Title: Battle of the Announcements Post by: chuffed on September 21, 2013, 15:10:00 Was reminded of the quarrelling announcers in 'Airplane' at Bath Spa this morning.
All trains were leaving Plat 2 at about 10am as there appeared to be a broken down HST on Plat 1. Three times the automated system announced the 1000 Bristol Temple as the next train only to be countermanded by a human saying the next train would be the 1007 to Weymouth. As you can imagine Plat 2 was pretty rammed. The poor old digital display kept switchng from one to the other, getting in a right tizzy. Who won ? the computer of course. Think the poor old human operative went to hide in a cupboard ! Title: Re: Battle of the Announcements Post by: bobm on September 21, 2013, 15:14:59 Was a busy morning at Bath. First an early HST service from Weston super Mare broke down and had to be terminated. Then the 08:00 from Paddington gave up the ghost on the opposite platform and took nearly an hour to shift. Luckily there was a gap between the two incidents so trains could still pass.
Title: Re: Battle of the Announcements Post by: BerkshireBugsy on September 21, 2013, 18:12:44 Was reminded of the quarrelling announcers in 'Airplane' at Bath Spa this morning. All trains were leaving Plat 2 at about 10am as there appeared to be a broken down HST on Plat 1. Three times the automated system announced the 1000 Bristol Temple as the next train only to be countermanded by a human saying the next train would be the 1007 to Weymouth. As you can imagine Plat 2 was pretty rammed. The poor old digital display kept switchng from one to the other, getting in a right tizzy. Who won ? the computer of course. Think the poor old human operative went to hide in a cupboard ! Airplane! Class film...shame about the sequel. There is no parking in the red zone... This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |