The enigmatic Inspector Sands is sometimes heard on the public transport system in the UK, but often not for long enough to record. This morning there was a good opportunity to fire up my recorder and capture over a minute of this announcement.
The announcement can be made for a number of reasons, and is used to alert transport staff to an incident without causing panic in what are usually, crowded and congested areas – the last place you need a stampede.
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Wikipedia has an interesting article on the subject here.