This brings back painful memories of when I worked at a call centre and had to ring people all around the country on behalf of the job centre. Would have to read out a thing that basically said “you recently advertised a position for a <whatever> at the <placename> job centre, is that correct?”
Some place names are HARD! And people get really mean to what is obviously a teenage girl on the phone who isn’t from around there and doesn’t know how to say it 😭
It is one of those annoying things when you move to a new area learning the 'actual' pronunciation of places though. I remember moving to Yorkshire and learning that Keighley is pronounced 'keeth-lee' the hard way.
But yeah, you would expect the train companies running the area to get it right more often then not I suppose. Though we are talking about Northern here...
It will probably be that there is a load more announcements possible on newer trains, so rather than only doing the missing bits with a new voice actor, they may as well do the lot so that it’s consistent
Close. Two random employees, neither of them drivers:
The new onboard announcements are being recorded by Peter Corley and Laura Palmer, two of Northern’s employees, who were chosen for having “nice voices”. Corley is a conductor based in York with a ripe Yorkshire accent. Palmer is also based in York as Northern’s cybersecurity and compliance manager, but, more controversially, is actually from Essex. “That makes her a northerner by choice, which is always nice,” said a Northern Trains PR person
I really hope Laura Palmer was born pre-1990, because naming your child after a fictional teenager who may or may not have been murdered by her father is pretty grim.
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