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[email protected] · February 14th 05, 06:10 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Ashley Brown) wrote:

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

We get spurious destination announcements on the Northern Line 95 stock,
such as announcing "the next station is Borough" as the train goes into
the tunnel at Colindale. Usually clears up after a few messages.

Roger