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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent

Train passengers in England to be given break from ‘endless’ announcements

Waterloo station in London. The move to limit onboard announcements is part of a plan to improve the rail industry for passengers.
Waterloo station in London. The move to limit onboard announcements is part of a plan to improve the rail industry for passengers. Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/REX/Shutterstock

Train announcements are to be given a formal hearing by government officials so that those deemed “repetitive and unnecessary” can be axed.

Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, has commissioned a cross-industry review and called for a “bonfire of the banalities”.

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