Railway Announcement
There is a suburban railway station called “Pazhavanthangal” in the Chennai Beach to Tambaram railway route that I pass through everyday when I take the train to office. Whenever my train, enroute to Tambaram, stops in that station in the morning, I hear an station announcement that says “Passengers, for your kind attention please. A suburban train towards Tambaram will arrive shortly“. The announcement continues for sometime even after my train starts to leave the station.
I am amused by this annoucement because it doesn’t make any sense. Trains in a single direction arrive once every 5 minutes or less during peak hours. Unless the announcement specifies a time, shortly here doesn’t make any sense.
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- General | Time: 9:17:39 PM (UTC+8)
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Comment by Subbu — November 16, 2006 @ 7:53:18 AM
There was probably criticism that the trains dont arrive at the specified time.
This seems to be a fool-proof solution to that.
Comment by swami — November 17, 2006 @ 1:51:55 AM