Station and on board train announcements - merged topic, ongoing discussion

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[6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01]

i liked it last time i was on a paignton bound swt service from honiton it was in the middle of the day and unusually was only one class 159 so 3 car, however from pinhoe onwards the automated message kept on stating this train will split at exeter st davids all passengers wishing to travel beyond exeter please proceed to the front three carrages of the train.... was very amusing when everyone in our carrage apart from a hand full went to the front of the train and the people who knew that the train travels in the opposite direction after exeter came to out carrage, now im guessing that not many people that are not train fans dont know that it is extreamly unlikly that a 3 car 159 would be split up, but for the anoucement to say please proceed to the front 3 cars when there are only 3?

[cereal_basher]

Yesterday at Plymouth I heard the announcement for the 1000 Penzance-Paddington service and after all the normal stuff the female voice announced "I am sorry to inform you that this service has been reported full and standing". I thought it was unusual, has anyone heard that before?

[6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01]

Yesterday at Plymouth I heard the announcement for the 1000 Penzance-Paddington service and after all the normal stuff the female voice announced "I am sorry to inform you that this service has been reported full and standing". I thought it was unusual, has anyone heard that before?

ive never been on a fgw hst which wasnt eather full or nearly full

[Btline]

Yesterday at Plymouth I heard the announcement for the 1000 Penzance-Paddington service and after all the normal stuff the female voice announced "I am sorry to inform you that this service has been reported full and standing". I thought it was unusual, has anyone heard that before?

If Phil had recorded that, he would be saying it non stop at New Street (for each XC^▸ (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) service)!!

[6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01]

Yesterday at Plymouth I heard the announcement for the 1000 Penzance-Paddington service and after all the normal stuff the female voice announced "I am sorry to inform you that this service has been reported full and standing". I thought it was unusual, has anyone heard that before?

If Phil had recorded that, he would be saying it non stop at New Street (for each XC^▸ (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) service)!!

xc counts the toilets as somewhere passengers can stand... after all they are quite spacious but for somereason nobody ever uses this option? 

[cereal_basher]

Yesterday at Plymouth I heard the announcement for the 1000 Penzance-Paddington service and after all the normal stuff the female voice announced "I am sorry to inform you that this service has been reported full and standing". I thought it was unusual, has anyone heard that before?

If Phil had recorded that, he would be saying it non stop at New Street (for each XC^▸ (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) service)!!

I have been around many times when it could have been used but never actually heard it before.

[Btline]

xc counts the toilets as somewhere passengers can stand... after all they are quite spacious but for some reason nobody ever uses this option? 

Not fare-paying passengers anyway...

[Super Guard]

Yesterday at Plymouth I heard the announcement for the 1000 Penzance-Paddington service and after all the normal stuff the female voice announced "I am sorry to inform you that this service has been reported full and standing". I thought it was unusual, has anyone heard that before?

If the TM^‡(resolve) has phoned control and said "my service is F & S" then they normally get it put on CIS^▸ (Customer Information System) further up.

[cereal_basher]

Yesterday at Plymouth I heard the announcement for the 1000 Penzance-Paddington service and after all the normal stuff the female voice announced "I am sorry to inform you that this service has been reported full and standing". I thought it was unusual, has anyone heard that before?

If the TM^‡(resolve) has phoned control and said "my service is F & S" then they normally get it put on CIS^▸ (Customer Information System) further up.

The TV Screens regularly display the words Service Reported Full and Standing, just the first time I have heard the announcement.

[Super Guard]

I think CIS^▸ (Customer Information System) have to activate the announcement as well as put the text on, which is why you may not hear it.

[6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01]

xc counts the toilets as somewhere passengers can stand... after all they are quite spacious but for some reason nobody ever uses this option? 

Not fare-paying passengers anyway...

i bet voyagers get less fair dodgers! would you wanna hide in one of those with the door locked?

[plymothian]

Yesterday at Plymouth I heard the announcement for the 1000 Penzance-Paddington service and after all the normal stuff the female voice announced "I am sorry to inform you that this service has been reported full and standing". I thought it was unusual, has anyone heard that before?

Yes, several times including at Reading (plat 4) and Plymouth and they were jammed packed.

Helpfully, one of the ones at Plymouth was during major disruption and as followed by a manual announcement recommending passengers (sorry, customers) got the following train, though no one took any notice and a handful of us enjoyed near empty carriages.

[willc]

Oxford has a male voice on the up side and a female voice on the down side and, with simultaneous announcements, it is simple and effective.

But at a relatively unbusy station like Oxford, I doubt there are simultaneous announcements. The station is not big enough for different "zones" of announcements, like at Clapham Junction. Even Birmingham New Street can cope with just Phil.

Which "relatively unbusy" Oxford station is this? There are plenty of announcements that are going on near the same time, eg 06 and 36 mins northbound XC^▸ (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) departures and 07 and 37 FGW^▸ (First Great Western) London stoppers, plus a slightly late 01 or 31 London-bound fast can butt in as well.

The different voices for different platforms work well. I find I just tune out of the ones that don't relate to the platform I'm interested in.

It may be a bit odd if adopted at a rural stop with one train an hour each way but no doubt someone will address that issue when they start to roll the system out across the network.

[Louis]

Yesterday at Plymouth I heard the announcement for the 1000 Penzance-Paddington service and after all the normal stuff the female voice announced "I am sorry to inform you that this service has been reported full and standing". I thought it was unusual, has anyone heard that before?

Haha i reminded my m8 who was working in the office to add that bit in , filmed that one come in, only left 4 late lol. He was ringing swindon asking them if they could add anymore to the 'Please Note' section, but it was already full 

Plymouths got loads of problems, on monday the 1937 annoucement went off, everyone thought it was coming in, but infact it was set of by default, as the system does not detect trains rite. After it went off they annouced it was 15 late! Also the computer crashes alot, and the system has only just been reset (when phil came back for a few weeks), thats why the annoucements are not on alot cause they have to restart it and remember to skip scandisk!

[paul7575]

Also, a fully functional auto announcer for Oxford should provide two or even three different announcements for each train, and more if there are delays, so it isn't a simple case of announcements not clashing just because there aren't two trains timetabled together. Having two voices at Oxford also future proofs it for the Chiltern plans of course...

Paul