"Zen" - train announcing used to be extremely strictly controlled in BR days, as strict as the BBC were with their spoken English! But like everything else these days, we seem to be subject to "dumbing down" (the LCD - Lowest Common Denominator - syndrome)! Barry Norman was sounding off about this in TV yesterday, the BBC had to join the club to keep up with the multiplicity of digital TV channels frantically trying to fill the broadcasting hours with (often) dross!