Re: Colume 8 SMH

["Eric Cartman" <erkV69@erk.au.com>]

The DVA announcements would come from the SM's office area near platform 10
and there is a microphone etc in a little booth on each of the intercity
(1-15 platforms).

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Geoff Lambert <G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au> wrote in message
394d6210.434045335@nntp.unsw.edu.au">news:394d6210.434045335@nntp.unsw.edu.au...
| On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 04:16:12 +1000, "Bill McNiven"
| <wmcniven@gunzel.ozemail.com.au> wrote:
|
| >There was a DVA announcement at Sydney (Steam Platforms) Platform 2 at
09:34
| >on Sunday morning "The train standing at platform 2 is now due to depart.
| >Stand clear please."  At that stage, around 150 passengers were waiting
for
| >the 09:35 Armidale Explorer.  The cars actually arrived at 09:40.
|
| This happened when I went to despatch someone on the Melbourne
| overnight train a while ago.  There were two series of announcements
| interleaved, apparently coming over the same speakers. One was a DVA
| announcement saying the train was about to leave and the other was a
| live announcement from a real person, sounding rather harried, saying
| that the train hadn't even been docked yet.  The human announcement
| appeared to be coming from someone on the platform, but where does the
| DVA announcement get driven from?
|
| Geoff Lambert
|