It feels as though you have alighted at a high-tech Approved School.
Given the eye-watering cost of rail fares these days, I would like to be treated as a valued customer. But having heard this announcement several dozen times I will settle for being treated like an adult.
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I think you mean "to walk and not run" - unless they've commissioned a different set of annoying announcements especially for Derby station ...
Indeed I do, though in "If..." the younger boys are ordered to run in the corridor.
Why not link this with a clip of the 1964 single by the Ventures 'Walk don't run' and suggest this to EMT for loudspeaker backing ?
Good idea, but I prefer their 1960 version.
You should be grateful you don't suffer Arriva Trains Wales. Journeys on their trains are constantly punctuated by announcements, the most curious of which is their claim that "this train calls at the following principal stations: ... " and goes on to list every stopping point; on a Manchestyer - Pembroke Dock service by the time the list has been exhausted we are at the next station, and it can all start again!
Are you aware that the 'need' for these announcements is now being used at some stations (I'm looking at you New Street) to justify actually turning off announcements of which train will be leaving at which platform? As a visually impaired train user that makes the stations so much less accessable to me, but apparently it really is more important that people get told that they are being watched and that it is raining!
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