bramling
Veteran Member
The Phil Sayer announcements at Waterloo (Bakerloo southbound) are a perfect example of authority without sounding like a 30s voice over.
You wouldn’t have liked my local station in the 90s when it was all manual announcements. Both of the regular supervisors were proper “old school” railwaymen, and they absolutely boomed through the PA when announcing trains pretty much as Peter Lodge does at Enbankment. No scope for not hearing or misunderstanding. Now we have the awful Anne announcements instead, which are hardly an improvement, and are pretty useless during disruption as well. Isn’t progress wonderful.