I was at Ealing Broadway at about 10am this morning, to find a Central
Line train which had just arrived advertising its destination as "West
Ruislip".

When the driver for the Eastbound journey arrived, the train announced
"This is a Waterloo & City Line train to Waterloo". Good luck doing that
one, I thought.

Sometime after leaving Ealing Broadway, while travelling at a fairly
high speed, the train announced "Please leave the train."

Then, approaching White City, came the announcement "The next station is
South Ruislip where this train termin...cut off by driver".

It finally decided White City was next and announced as such, however
then announced "Thank you for travelling on the Waterloo & City line".

It was a highly amusing journey, but had me thinking: what could cause
this sort of behaviour? How connected are the ATO and announcement
systems? Can the announcer get confused, but the train know where it is?
Could it have been the train operator initiating messages manually and
having a bad day/having a laugh?

--
Ashley