D78 Stock Voice Announcer

There 'is' a list of stored announcements and all T/ops are issued with it, but it is private and not for publication, I assume! Plus it would be useless without the accompanying DVA system.
The 'keep belongings...., and CCTV....' ones are listed on the DVA sticky attached to the programmer - there is a list of about 15 which I assume are meant to be often used but in fact seldom are.
There is a T/op - an Inst/op - who is a gee whizz on the DVA codes and I bet you were on his train, hence the Cannon st and Trafalger Squ. ones.
The rest of us can't be bothered and we just do manual announcements....

The list in that image transcribed exactly, including 99 appearing before 98 and grammatical errors (no apostrophe in "Kings Cross", full stops with no following capital letter)

DVA Manual Announcements




Is number 90 applying the rule for passing a signal at danger (or other reason for passing a raised trainstop)?

Thanks for all the replies, I am a member of station staff, just with a (keen) weird interest!!

Hello from a new member - I'm pleased to discover this lively and useful forum which has already answered so many questions (without me needing to ask any of them!)

Very interesting to read that PVA list - especially the transcribed one, since my eyes wouldn't adjust to the photo.

I was surprised to not see several familiar announcements in the list - ones I hear regularly on the approach to Earl's Court..

Ladies & Gentlemen, we are being held at a red signal... (should be on the move shortly) - EB only?

Ladies & Gentlemen, we are waiting for a vacant platform at the station ahead... - WB only or both?

Ladies & Gentlemen, we are being delayed at a signal, owing to congestion ahead... (WB only?)

I'm wondering are they part of some different list/system, or is one D78 stock driver an Emma impersonator? ;D

Also, I believe I have heard the "this train terminates here" message twice on occasions at HST/OLY and assumed that would be in this list too. If that is automatic then it's especially surprising to me since I thought the destination (on the internal boards - whatever they are known as) was sometimes set for the return journey prior to arriving at the terminus.

Any info most welcome! Thanks.

Now that's an elegant solution - and a nice clear answer! Many thanks, chrish.

I had guessed some annos were automatic & could only be "dumped" while playing (eg. inappropriate "change here for.." messages when there are engineering works), while others had to be manually invoked to play at all - but I'd assumed the Emma "red signal" messages were supposed to be used every time rather than live ones.

I'm pleased that's not the case since when you are stopped in a tunnel it's so much better to hear a live, natural voice rather than a supposedly reassuring "everything's ok" recording!

Since it's still relevant to the thread title, here's another automated announcer point I'm wondering if anyone has noticed...

(those for whom this is obvious and part of daily life may wish to skip this para!
On approach to ECT we're told well in advance that the next station is Earl's Court, and from that point the destination is not mentioned while the dot-matrix just scrolls the Earl's Court message. When the doors open the anno is "this is Earl's Court, change here for the Piccadilly Line and District Line services to other destinations.." before it tells us *our* destination as the very last thing.

It always struck me as being a design flaw that from the moment we are told Earl's Court is next we're not told the destination until after the doors open and we're told to change for "other destinations" - no wonder people have to loiter around the doors or jump up at the very end of the anno!

I wonder if that will carry over to future systems?

That's fair Colin - although the side displays do alternate between destination and "District Line", so it's easy to look once and not realise it would then change to show the destination. I have helped people who have looked straight at them and then asked me where the train is going, because of that.

I agree there is more information than people seem to notice - or, to put it another way, there's a lot to take in! At off-peak times when there is no-one on the platform at places like Gloucester Road or West Brompton to make live calls it's not uncommon to hear an announcement about weekend engineering works when a train you are about to board arrives at the platform. If it's quiet then sometimes the doors are being closed before the destination is given in the automated message - which, of course, cuts off the message.

It's all about the right information at the right time, of course and in a single announcement "other destinations" is meaningless until it has told us the train's own destination, but I do take your point about the different ways to find out.