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I can excuse shit and late trains, but mispronouncing Northern train stations? An abomination. (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"The operator recently had to re-record all of its onboard announcements so that they were compatible with its new fleet of trains."

I call bs on this. They lost the audio files, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Knowing Northern, they were probably all stored on floppy disks anyway

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It will probably be that there is a load more announcements possible on newer trains, so rather than only doing the missing bits with a new voice actor, they may as well do the lot so that it's consistent

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bold of you to assume Northern paid a voice actor and didn't just sit a random driver down in front of a microphone. /joke

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Close. Two random employees, neither of them drivers:

The new onboard announcements are being recorded by Peter Corley and Laura Palmer, two of Northern’s employees, who were chosen for having “nice voices”. Corley is a conductor based in York with a ripe Yorkshire accent. Palmer is also based in York as Northern’s cybersecurity and compliance manager, but, more controversially, is actually from Essex. “That makes her a northerner by choice, which is always nice,” said a Northern Trains PR person

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I really hope Laura Palmer was born pre-1990, because naming your child after a fictional teenager who may or may not have been murdered by her father is pretty grim.