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At Tower Hill Underground station

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Michael Ixer ● 2443d3 Comments

That's so sweet.... I no longer commute (thank God) but that sort of thing used to make my day.Like the tube driver who announced "ladies and gentlemen, I apologise for the delay, we should be moving on shortly, but the driver of the train in front got caught short".  Was greeted with some moans but a lot of laughter.

Bunny Payne ● 2441d

I remember being on the tube once when the driver came on to the intercom to announce in a deep voice “This is your driver speaking ...... or is it?”  It brought a much needed smile to most people though one or two who had seen too many horror films looked a little nervous!

Jonathan Callaway ● 2441d

There's someone at Tower Hill who regularly writes things like this. The best announcement I heard one was when waiting at Earl's Court a few years ago: it was a day when all the District Line trains were messed up because of a signal failure (yes, really). TfL chap made an announcement about signal failure not really telling us anything about what was happening, then turned to colleague and, forgetting to turn off his microphone, said "how the f***ing hell am I supposed to know what's happening"; nearly everyone burst out laughing except another TfL colleague rushing to the announcer's booth 🙂

Michael Ixer ● 2441d