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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2010 21:36:07 GMT
Not really sure if this warrants a whole new thread but I can't find anywhere else to put it.
The (seemingly) automated station announcements at HotH have been saying "The East London line is closed" for god knows how long - is that really necessary now? I mean it's not part of London Underground anymore and there aren't any service updates re: LO at any other tube stations that I know of.
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Post by metman on Mar 1, 2010 21:37:33 GMT
I think they have to say it until the East London Line reopens as part of LO - crazy hah!
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Post by superteacher on Mar 1, 2010 21:44:35 GMT
Another example of announcement overkill!
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Post by cso on Mar 2, 2010 9:54:08 GMT
Ickenham does the East London Line announcement too... very annoying and utterly pointless.
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Post by deadmans on Mar 2, 2010 16:52:37 GMT
Another example of announcement overkill! BONUS overkill more like.  ;D   |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2010 17:52:10 GMT
Weird they don't announce British Museum station closed on-train upon departing Marble Arch westbound  |
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Post by norbitonflyer on Mar 2, 2010 19:00:07 GMT
Weird they don't announce British Museum station closed on-train upon departing Marble Arch westbound And I've been waiting at Acton Town for ages for a train to South Acton! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2010 19:16:23 GMT
Weird they don't announce British Museum station closed on-train upon departing Marble Arch westbound And I've been waiting at Acton Town for ages for a train to South Acton! My Tube Map app (which has service updates) for my iPhone claimed Oysterley-Hounslow East on the District Line to be closed... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2010 19:16:41 GMT
LU produce guidelines for making PA's.
Making PA's at Harrow-on-the-Hill or Ickenham regarding the East London Line is not a requirment under LUs guidelines.
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Post by cso on Mar 2, 2010 21:10:54 GMT
I'd hazard a guess someone hasn't worked out how to (metaphorically) change the record... although armed with that information, I may challenge it next time I hear it at Ickenham  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2010 0:56:53 GMT
I think the references to the East London Line became officialy obsolete some time last year. Whoever is responsible for the announcements in that part of the network just hasn't turned it off. It's not inaccurate information that will mislead someone affecting their journey, sure that once the Overground ELR is opened the service updates will be amended.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2010 10:22:40 GMT
Maybe it is like the situation on the Jubilee Line when the DLR to City Airport opened; the Jubilee automated on-train announcements (both voice and displays) continued to say at Canary Wharf "change for the airport bus" (which had been withdrawn), and said nothing at Canning Town, where the DLR connection to the airport now operated.
This carried on for over a year after the changeover. There was a contract dispute beween all the various parties over who should bear the costs of changing the Jubilee announcements, which took this extraordinary length of time to get resolved. The fact that passengers were being sent the wrong way all this time, and probably quite few missed their planes as they roamed the streets outside Canary Wharf looking for the now non-existent bus, was apparently neither here nor there.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2010 7:23:07 GMT
Automated announcements on stations are fairly rare. The only announcements that are automated (that I can think of) are fire alert related, mind the gap and on Tubelines stations the PA which tells you the next train destination etc.
Harrow-on-the-Hill and Ickenham are likely to have the new SMS PA system which is a little different to other PA systems as it doesn't reset at midnight.
What has likely happened is somebody has programmed the East London Line message to repeat daily and has left the PA in the playlist. Ickenham and H-O-H are on the same station group so perhaps even by the same person?
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Post by su31 on May 3, 2010 22:26:55 GMT
Harrow-on-the-Hill and Ickenham are likely to have the new SMS PA system which is a little different to other PA systems as it doesn't reset at midnight. It sounds to me that these stations are on the "Voice Perfect" system. It allows you to select status for each line when creating a pre-recorded announcement. Some staff are probably changing the ELL to Closed rather than leaving in it effectively with good service (which wouldn't be announced anyway!) EG: after making the required selections for a typical morning, the announcements could sound something like "The East London Line is closed, the District and Piccadilly lines are part closed, the Circle line has minor delays... There is a good service on all other lines" Hope this helps... |
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