I am not even joking, but I just cried here 2:31 . I was in London studying english about a year ago, just a silly little tourist girl, enjoying a silly little british summer, whatching silly little operas, and musicals, and wimbledon tennis games. I distinctly remember going to Earlsfield station to catch a train to my school, in Wimbledon, Gail’s cinnamon bun in hand, doing my makeup on the way there because I always overslept. Then I would get into the train and every single day, there she would be. And every single day I would speak along with her: “see it, say it, sorted”. Idk, that part is just stuck with me to this day, and hearing these announcements just makes me remember all the great moments that I had in London. Thanks for this video❤️
Excellent video, onboard Celia always sounds very charismatic. She also had some generic stuff recorded - I’ve heard her say “onboard staff will be shortly carrying out a full ticket check on this train, please have your tickets ready!” in Old Celia voice but didn’t manage to record it. I hope SWR keep her on the trains for the foreseeable.
Thanks! Oh absolutely, out of all the announcers on the trains Celia is my favourite closely followed by Julie Berry (who hopefully will replace Acapela Rachel on the 707s when Southeastern get them)
@@Parallel395 I’ve heard the ‘There is a fault with the door system..’ announcement a few times. It sometimes happens on class 450’s when an unscheduled stop is made.
Elinor Hamilton has recorded a new DVA being rolled out across SWR trains 😕 might be good to record more Celia content if you hear it, before her voice is gone forever!
Celia had already recorded all the onboard announcements in her New Celia voice and there are no new stations at the minute on the SWR network so its ok for the time being
when 444s and 450s (the trains i use the most) or celias voice eventually and inevitability get discontinued i will be so sad :( sounds weird but this simple voice and those trains have been present throughout my life and it'll be weird on a normal train without them!!
i find it a bit amusing that SWR’s platform announcements makes their voice artists speak really slow, yet the onboard SWR trains speaks really fast lol
This is some sad news for all of you, Celia will not record any more announcements because she died in January 2021. I think it was from cancer and not Covid.
