• Cevilia (she/they/…)
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    11 year ago

    Bold of you to assume Northern paid a voice actor and didn’t just sit a random driver down in front of a microphone. /joke

    • @jocanib
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      31 year ago

      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

      • rubikcuber
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        11 year ago

        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.