Favourite automated announcement chimes and jingles.

[LOL The Irony]

Although not used, I'm going to put this forward

 

[py_megapixel]

One of my favourites is probably the one used on the U-Bahn in Nuremberg. It's at 1:25 in this video:

I also remember travelling on a privately contracted German service - I think operated by Metronom? - which had a sequence of piano chords as its chime, if anyone can find a video of that.

 

[Bletchleyite]

Here you go:

 

[py_megapixel]

That's the one!

 

[AlexNL]

Eurobahn (a Keolis brand) have nice announcement chimes on board their trains as well. A nice touch is that they have three variants.

0:07 Next Stop announcement
0:58 "This is..." announcement
1:23 "Welcome to eurobahn" announcement played at the first station only

 

[Pakenhamtrain]

The C2 class trams down here use a chime from Windows 98 for the stop request.
(From 0:06)

 

[Bletchleyite]

The C2 class trams down here use a chime from Windows 98 for the stop request.
(From 0:06)

Indian Railways use this one from Windows 3.1:

Though it's only on stations, no trains have on board autoannouncers (I think).

 

[Planesandtrain]

One of my favourite announcements, the arrival announcement of a ceske drahy supercity pendolino train into Prague. I always imagined what it would be like if GWR started playing elgar on arrival into paddington.

 

[Halish Railway]

It seems that things are a bit dry on the UK front so here’s some of my suggestions

The TfW 175s, which is followed by a very monotonous announcement (if you’re lucky then you’ll get the good old “we will be calling at the following principle stations”)

Then there’s the Southeastern 395s (43 seconds)

On the manual announcement front I’d nominate whatever that jingle is on the IC225s and the one on the Meridians and EMR HSTs.

 

[Jamesrob637]

What I love about TfW is the way they announce:

The next station is XXX. Thank you

Or

We will be calling at: XXX? As if they're questioning it. It's your train: you should know where it stops at

 

[duesselmartin]

One of my favourite announcements, the arrival announcement of a ceske drahy supercity pendolino train into Prague. I always imagined what it would be like if GWR started playing elgar on arrival into paddington.

Classical music by Smetana . Would Finland use heavy metal?

 

[Craig2601]

The Metro in Laussane had a little jingle for each stop on the line which was pretty cool.

Also quite like the jingles used on Renfe services.