U.K. Transport Secretary Pledges to Silence ‘Endless Torrent’ of Train Announcements

Commuters at London Paddington railway station.

Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg
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The “endless torrent” of announcements on trains will be scrapped, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said.

He has pledged to launch a “bonfire of the banalities” to make rail journeys in England quieter.