January 21st - Is Your Train Journey About To Get Quieter?
Plans have been announced to do away with unnecessary train announcements, but is that the most important thing right now?
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast · The Independent
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Show Notes
Train journeys could become a lot quieter if plans recently announced are anything to go by. Yes, train companies and the government are looking to reduce the number of announcements onboard to give us all a better rail experience. But is that where focus should be right now? As I speak to you on this train, I counted a whopping 11 people on a service that could service several hundred, giving us a visual sense of the problems facing our rail industry right now. In this episode, I discuss the plans and give my views on whether we're drowning in service announcements or being directed to a problem many of us don't really think of as being one.
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