Re: trial CityRail signage and info systems

["Hubert Lam" <hubert@softhome.net>]

They like announcing the 'major' stations, no matter if the train's running all stations past that station. (Hear the SPI
announcements! ie from Burwood to Hornsby via Epping- first stop Strathfield, then North Strathfield, then all stations to Epping,
then Cheltenham, then all stations to Hornsby)

Hubert Lam

jdennis@acslink.net.au wrote in message <70m551$jrl$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
In article <70lrs1$84k$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  boofheadpaul@yahoo.com.au wrote:
> In article <908972721.217030@woody.hotkey.net.au>,
>   "Michael Walker" <walker@hotkey.net.au> wrote:
>
> > Actually, the cold voice at Flinders Street has competition from the warm
> > sounding man at Spencer Street and the lady who does the Loop stations (and
> > platform 1 at Flinders Street). Plus the male voice who does all the help
> > button information and automated platform announcements.
>
> Something I have always wondered about announcements in Melbourne - why do
> they repeat the stations on express routes?  A "Sydney-style" announcement
> would say "First stop Richmond, then Glenferrie, Camberwell, Box Hill then
> all stations to Belgrave", whereas a Melbourne one says "Running express
> Richmond to Glenferrie, Glenferrie to Camberwell, Camberwell to Box Hill then
> stopping all stations". Why is that?  It seems to make the announcement drawn
> out.

And in a corresponding query, why in Sydney do they make announcements such
as the one I heard at North Sydney, in a Hornsby via Strathfield train.  This
announcement went through "Milsons Point, Wynyard, Town Hall, Central,
Redfern, then Burwood, Strathfield", then the next half a dozen station to
somewhere north of Strathfield, and finished with "and all stations to
Hornsby".  Why not say "all stations to Hornsby" after Strathfield and skip
the half-dozen names mentioned? --

John Dennis
Home of the Dutton Bay Tramway
http://www.acslink.net.au/~jdennis/dbt.html

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