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Title: B'ham New Street announcments the WORST in Britain Post by: Btline on September 01, 2011, 17:06:05 http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2011/08/22/birmingham-new-street-station-has-worst-announcements-poll-reveals-65233-29278385/
Celia's fault. It was fine before she came along... Title: Re: B'ham New Street announcments the WORST in Britain Post by: JayMac on September 01, 2011, 17:10:15 ... gonna start a 'Bring Back Phil' campaign, Btline? :P
Title: Re: B'ham New Street announcments the WORST in Britain Post by: willc on September 02, 2011, 01:14:12 all this is "according to the poll by ear treatment brand Cerumol"....
Title: Re: B'ham New Street announcments the WORST in Britain Post by: Btline on September 02, 2011, 11:43:22 all this is "according to the poll by ear treatment brand Cerumol".... ;D Seriously, even Oxford is criticised. How can Ditra stations be criticised when they are far superior in every respect to any other system? And Phil (and I suppose Celia) are very clear and easy to hear, unlike ATOS Anne, who should be EXTERMINATED. Title: Re: B'ham New Street announcments the WORST in Britain Post by: readytostart on September 02, 2011, 14:02:33 Funnily Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley have different voices despite both being run by Network Rail. Waverley's voice (to my knowledge) is that of Juliet the Station Manager for NR, can only assume that Glasgow is someone similar with a more west coast twang.
Normally pretty good but every timetable change there'll be a change in calling pattern and the announcements will start missing stations that haven't been recorded. (Such as Teignmouth, Heald Green, Laurencekirk) Title: Re: B'ham New Street announcments the WORST in Britain Post by: IndustryInsider on September 03, 2011, 08:44:41 Seriously, even Oxford is criticised. How can Ditra stations be criticised when they are far superior in every respect to any other system? And Phil (and I suppose Celia) are very clear and easy to hear, unlike ATOS Anne, who should be EXTERMINATED. Perhaps Oxford is criticised because you can't hear the announcements from within the concourse any more? Since the system was upgraded I don't think anything gets announced in there and on the platforms you often get Phil and Celia competing with each other announcing simultaneously on platforms 1 and 2 which can be annoying. Title: Re: B'ham New Street announcments the WORST in Britain Post by: smokey on September 03, 2011, 10:04:23 Normally pretty good but every timetable change there'll be a change in calling pattern and the announcements will start missing stations that haven't been recorded. (Such as Teignmouth, Heald Green, Laurencekirk) IIRC Digital Doris from Wessex days, who was Ruth, went to Nottingham for 3 Days for the recordings and every Station in Britain was recorded 3 times. It took a Morning to Do all off England, the Afternoon to do Scotland, and TWO days to do all the Stations in Wales ;D ;D But even after all that we still ended up with "Buglulyan" on the Newquay branch. Title: Re: B'ham New Street announcments the WORST in Britain Post by: XPT on September 04, 2011, 23:02:49 Can't understand all those people saying the announcements are muffled and hard to hear??? ??? Every time I've been in Birmingham New Street I can allways clearly hear the announcements. When I was there just the other week Phil Sayer's announcements were being used as well as that female announcer(not sure of her name, but I think she sounds a little grumpy every time I hear her announcements).
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