"Not part of company policy...." Topic

But it should. Well done to that announcer;

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(Trains are travel, couldn't tink where else to put it!)

It's not policy, but it should be. Where's the Cone of Silence when you really need it?

Tannoy must be a Britishism…

I've seen the term used when refering to what we call intercom. You know, that habit the Brits have of naming things after those who invent a thing. Kind of charming, if not always descriptive.

At first I thought "tannoy" was some sort of typo, either with the writer attempting to say "to annoy" or being truly muddled while going for "announce."
So a "tannoy" is an intercom. Interesting and rather appropriate (as "to annoy" certainly seems a common use for intercom systems).

A tannoy system is an intercom system.

Main characteristics loud and no-one can understand what is being said over the things.

"Network Rail would like to apologise to passengers awaiting the 15:45 train this has been delayed for three hours due to unavoidable hfngurgle-squawk-gurgle and by squawk-yurgle-nurgle on the line in the vicinity of Reading."

If that.

Tannoy is to public address systems as Hoover is to vacuum cleaners.

No, no, no! An intercom has an element of two-way communication. That's what the 'inter' bit means. A tannoy is like a glorified loudhailer….

Apparently (so says wiki) the company are prone to writing cease and desist letters (in the same manner that GW do ) to organisations that use the terms 'tannoy' to protect their trademark.