Really nice catches, mate. 👍 Some of the station announcements in the last section do kinda make sense (For example, Tattenham Corner, which at one point was intended to become of Thameslink.) but the Ruislip Lido Railway stations are just plain bizarre!
Yeah, a lot of the stations in the system (eg. Hastings, Tattenham Corner, Ramsgate) could definitely become part of the network if Thameslink expanded. The Ruislip Lido stations are interesting, I agree!
I wouldn't be surprised if the guy who manages the information system is a bit of a train geek and volunteers at Ruislip. He probably uses them as test stations on the PIS so as not to mess around with real ones when testing new features.
Nice! I heard the red signal announcement at city thameslink and we were there for 30 whole mins, it was kinda creepy considering nobody was on the platforms
Thanks! They are all super rare after all - maybe you will hear some of them at some point on your travels! Quite a few of them seem to be dead announcements stored on the system never to be used though.
Uckfield has been on the cards for electrification for a while now - I don’t think it’ll go ahead though unfortunately. The government seems to be more in favour of battery trains on the route.
Yeah it’s quite funny lol - looks like Thameslink relying on electrification plans to go ahead in the near future should they want to expand their network!
Nottingham, Rugby, Sheffield are rarely interesting for me. Wow.. also there’s no calling at Birmingham New Street, Manchester Piccadilly, Liverpool Lime Street and etc… Weird idea much but I’d like to see it :)
I downloaded these from the website AlanThomsonSim to use in Train Simulator scenarios. I believe the upload has now been deleted. Other train announcements are available if you search for them online (I believe the LNER 800 announcements are available if you search “LNER Class 800 announcements download” on Google.
(Thankfully) I’ve never heard one of these announcements before so I’m not too sure. I believe the emergency evacuation announcements are used in case of eg. fire, derailment, or any other of the minority of incidents where it is safer to leave the train than to stay in it.
Could be something to do with EMR's 810s. SE 707 used these announcements, so maybe EMR 810 might use them! But then at the same time, the 810 isnt a desiro or desiro city so i dont know
I think a mix of tests and things carried over from the software of the classes 707/717 trains (especialy the second since Great Northern & Thameslink are one Company). The Ruislip Lido RW stations were probably the idea of Matt (male voice) who is in charge of the PIS on the (Southern?),GN,TL trains and also a member of the RLR.
