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caddymanI'm not sure whether I've grumbled about this before or not, but hey, it's my journal so I'm going to grumble about it now and sod the possibility of repetition.
I noticed both on the way up to Shrewsbury and on the return trip to Euston this afternoon, that amongst the younger train announcers it is now de rigeur to announce that we arriving into a station. Not at a station, into it. Now in my native language, one arrives at one's destination; that may be achieved by pulling into a station, but never arriving into. I expect that these are the same people who, in an emergency exercise, would try to evacuate people and not premises.
Happily, the announcer on today's VirginPandemonium Pendolino was a bit older and capable of making announcements in English, not some close counterfeit thereof.
I noticed both on the way up to Shrewsbury and on the return trip to Euston this afternoon, that amongst the younger train announcers it is now de rigeur to announce that we arriving into a station. Not at a station, into it. Now in my native language, one arrives at one's destination; that may be achieved by pulling into a station, but never arriving into. I expect that these are the same people who, in an emergency exercise, would try to evacuate people and not premises.
Happily, the announcer on today's Virgin