Isn't Anne named after the person who voiced her?
What does Atos Annie actually look like and does she have her own voiceover website like I believe Phil Sayer did?
Yes, Anne is her real name. She's a senior manager at Worldline so you won't find any kind of voiceover website for her.
EMT have a constant stream of announcements on stations in addition to announcements for individual trains.
- Welcome to Derby station, use the lifts and keep your bags with you.
- Keep your bags with you and remember the 3 ‘S’s (isn’t that only for use when the threat level is critical?)
- Engineering work this weekend
- More engineering work this weekend (but we get told again how to contact station staff and find them on Twitter)
- Samaritans announcement (worthy but annoying the first time, let alone subsequently)
- Smoking and e-cigarettes are not permitted
- Don’t struggle on the stairs today! Contact a member of ‘our team’ if you need assistance.
East Midlands Trains have always had a soft spot of unnecessary waffle. Everything you've listed there should be on a poster, not in an announcement - particularly nonsense about not falling down the stairs. I'm not overly against announcements for engineering work provided it's just a very swift "Engineering work will affect trains in this area over the coming weekend, plan ahead on nationalrail.co.uk or see posters" - if the announcement is going to be reading out what the individual alterations are for each individual route on certain days at specific times then no. Just a short "oh fyi this weekend..." is fine.
The "our team" references really do make me cringe.
The Samaritans small talk saves lives announcement (Gaby Roslin) is only scheduled in the CIS I operate until 19th November so I assume that's just a short campaign to raise awareness rather than something we'll be hearing everywhere for the next 10 years.