Announcements

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[Oberon]

I wonder if the message that too many public announcements of the health & safety variety tend to cancel themselves out has at last got through to FGW^▸ (First Great Western)? Hopefully it has because on a journey starting at Kemble and ending at Reading today, with a couple of hours at Didcot on the way home, it soon became noticeable how quiet those stations were compared to previous experiences. I think it would be wonderful if they ended altogether. In Germany or Switzerland you are never, as a fare paying passenger, subjected to such twaddle. And the trains run on time and are probably just as safe as ours.