Re: Amusing On train public announcements

David Bromage (dbromage@metz.une.edu.au)
5 Feb 1998 00:28:44 GMT

Chris Gordon (c.gordon@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au) wrote:
>David Bromage wrote:
>>
>> Mike Alexander (malex@bigfoot.com) wrote:
>> >> My favourite is the "All stations to Macarthur" - at Campbelltown!
>> >
>> >How about the stupid new automatic announcements on platforms 2 & 3 at
>> >Flinders St. which neglect to tell you if the train is going via the loop
>> >or not, and then say "stopping all stations to Richmond, then....."
>>
>> Once on a Saturday morning I got "running express from Richmond to
>> Flinders Street".
>
>And did it?
>
>I usally find the train stops a few 'signals' short of Flinders Street.

I've heard that one too! "Stopping all signals to Flinders Street".

Cheers
David