This from @BrianBlessed...
I'll do the voiceover for @sw_trains if my fee is donated to Samaritans @My6Percent @joekolakowski #MINDTHEGAP
And with the generous offer to donate his fee to the Samaritans, that will do nicely!
Here a gratuitous video of Brian at his best.
The ball, as they say, now lies in SWT's court...
When you're small you have to try that little bit harder...
"You will not get that on United Airlines, I guarantee you."
Nice!
With apologies to those who already follow The Fact Compiler on Twatter and FaceAche.
UPDATE: This just in from 'Is 1A03 out of Chester yet, Bert?'
On second thoughts The Fact Compiler will take his chances with God's Own County Airways...
UPDATE: This from Inspector Blakey...
Bit of a stretch to call Southwest Airlines small, old man. It's the biggest airline in the world in terms of passenger numbers...
From an ex-pat temporarily marooned in the States.
The Fact Compiler stands corrected!
Alec Trick has written to point out that:
Nigel Harris didn't sound the first trumpet against on train gobshiitery.
I did, in Todays Railways UK, July 2008!
As you will see from the below:
Are there others out there who are prepared to nail their colours to the mast?
UPDATE: This from Al...
Thanks to getting stuck in traffic I had a prolonged wait at Finsbury Park for a train out to civilisation this afternoon.
Whilst waiting, I was being driven slowly (more) insane by the announcements from the Underground (which are clearly audible even on the platforms on the surface), mainly regarding the weekend engineering works.
They seemed to feel that thirty seconds was too long to have gone without an announcement about them, with a mix of recorded and live.
Bonkers
Nigel Harris has sounded the first trumpet blast against the over zealous use of on-train PA systems.
Read Nigel's rant against this ubiquitous gobshiitery here.
Douglas Adams' character Ford Prefect had it on the nail: "If they don't keep on exercising their lips their brains start working."
Train crew: Less really is more!
Telegrammed by our independent expert
Your correspondent is aboard a Piccadilly line train from Heathrow where the driver has just announced:
"Wishing you a safe journey with me."
Is LU about to enter the airline business we wonder?
Or have they all been listening rather too closely to the Stockwell inquiry?
Pre-recorded announcement on an SWT Juniper at Richmond station this morning.
"The door buttons are now activated"
Our correspondent wonders what particular problem this is a solution to?
Meanwhile no mention that the train is 12 late.
More fatuous on train announcements please
Announcement overheard on a FGW service to Paddington this afternoon:
"Just to remind people that there is a fully licenced buffet on the service this afternoon, Jamie is quite bored reading his Railway Magazine, so please go and see him".
The Fact Compiler is unsure whether Messrs Piggott and Milner have cause for celebration or not...
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