Automated announcements onboard trains and at railway stations.
Dear Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company,
Under the Freedom Of Information Act could you please attach sound files of all of your automated announcements. I would like both the onboard train ones and the train station platform ones. This is for my personal use and interest only. Many thanks.
Yours faithfully,
Benjamin Simmonds
Dear Mr. Simmonds,
I acknowledge receipt of your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act. Please be advised that the Act allows us up to 20 working days (excluding statutory holidays) to process a valid request for information. You should, therefore, expect to receive a response on or before 26 June 2018.
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Regards
FOI/DPA Team
Translink
Dear Mr. Simmonds,
Thank you for your Freedom of information request (our ref: FOI712) which
was received on 27 May 2018.
Your request was as follows:
Under the Freedom of Information Act could you please attach sound files
of all of your automated announcements. I would like both the onboard
train ones and the train station platform ones. This is for my personal
use and interest only.
Response
Translink do not hold the audio files you have requested. The automated
announcements at our train stations are generated through a computerised
system which is owned and managed by the third-party supplier. Our
operators choose the relevant options from a drop-down menu on-screen
which in turn provides an automated audio announcement to our passengers.
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The FOI/DPA Team
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