ScotRail Annoucements

[GaryMcEwan]

Not sure if this has been posted yet or not, but a Twitter user has found the strangest Freedom of Information request ever.

Someone has actually FOI'd Scotrail and all 2440 announcements have been released. There some absolute oddities in there and some absolute crackers

https://twitter.com/jonbradyphoto/status/156063052200232140

'Bizarre FOI find of the day: Scotrail has openly published a two-hour long sound file containing every single element of its automated station announcements'

https://files.scotrail.co.uk/ScotRail_Station_Announcements_June2022.mp3

 

[subk2010]

Quite weird that they released all the announcements in one file.

 

[anamyd]

...and it took about 30 seconds to download

 

[anamyd]

I don't get why there are station names and Train Operating Company / TOC-specific service names from parts of the network outside ScotRail in there. Any ideas?

 

[busestrains]

Quite weird that they released all the announcements in one file.

If anyone wants the individual sound files they are available here:

ScotRail announcements June 2022 – Google Drive

The spreadsheet telling you which file is which is available here:

ScotRail announcements June 2022 index

Sheet6 Hello! I'm going to turn off anonymous edit access to this sheet now, but please request access if you'd like to keep editing it Announcements can be found in the 'Announcements' tab at the bottom of this window Thank you to everyone who helped with the transcription

docs.google.com

Also the ASL sound files (the other system that Scotrail use) are available here:

Index of /request/asl_railway_stations_automated_a/FOI202200540

Definitely an interesting selection of announcement recordings there.

 

[busestrains]

I don't get why there are station names and Train Operating Company / TOC-specific service names from parts of the network outside ScotRail in there. Any ideas?

I was wondering this too. I can only guess that Ketech (who supply this system) gave the same script to Alison Mckay that they gave to Celia Drummond and Phil Sayer so that Alison Mckay ended up recording lots of random irrelevant recordings. There are some really strange ones, Bluebell Railway, Spa Valley Railway, Watercress Line, Westenhanger Racecourse, Mitcham Eastfields, South West Trains, Kirton Lindsey, Quintrell Downs, etc.