Ann, thank you for your lucid justification of the 'station stop' announcements: I'll never gripe about them again.
I am somehow enraged by the train having to come 'to a complete stand at the platform'. Is the train going to rear up on its hind carriages to bring this about?
There is always the feeling with railway announcements that the men writing or saying them are struggling excessively to formalise phrases that might otherwise sound natural. And all the staff sound adenoidal and have accents that suggest they were brought up in Slough but once overheard an elocution lesson.
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