The joys of commuting.

[deird_lj]

Usually, train station announcements are the same old standard boring and unintelligible.

This morning, however...

At Richmond station, the loudspeakers were being used so that a very intelligible announcer could rhapsodise about the joys of commuting, and going to work.

Seriously. He was saying things like:
"...and isn't it great getting to go through our glorious train system, knowing that a productive day's work is waiting at the other end? We're thrilled to have you using our public transport this morning, so sit back, relax..."

It was... odd.

Comments

[deird1]

I had a complete wtf moment because I also commute to a station called Richmond (the one in London).

Ahh, the joys of Australian place names...

From what I can gather, all the British settlers felt incredibly homesick when they got here, so they started naming things after bits of Britain ("New South Wales" being a prominent one). So we have Richmond, Brighton, Belgrave, Laverton, Malvern, Fitzroy, Newmarket, Sandringham, Croydon, Cranbourne, Albion, Alphington, Brunswick, Strathmore, Preston, Lyndhurst, Melton, Newhaven, and Sydenham.
(All in Melbourne, and yes there are definitely more. I found those by looking at a map of the city, and randomly googling the English-sounding ones...)

Plus "Launceston" in Tasmania, and an entire island filled with place names from the Isle of Wight.

[silveronthetree.livejournal.com]

That would explain it. The names are repeated all over the place in England (for various reasons). The Phillip Island thing is awesome. The Isle of Wight is my field area for my PhD, but it would have been a lot more exciting and possibly a lot less muddy if it had been near Cowes, Australia!

[klme.livejournal.com]

We drove through Stratford upon Avon (in Gippsland) today ;)