Request ID: FOI-0675-2122 Date published: 27 July 2021
You asked
I would like to request a copy of the CD promised in this FoI request, https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/announcements_for_london_undergr
We answered
Our ref: FOI-0675-2122
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 1 July 2021, asking for London Underground, London Overground and DLR audio announcements.
Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. I can confirm that we hold some of the information you require.
Please find attached the requested London Overground and Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly line (JNP) announcements. You will note the Piccadilly line announcements are supplied as PCC files which may need specialist software to play them. This format is the only version we currently have available.
In regard to the DLR audio announcements, we do not hold this information. The on train announcements for the DLR are not held in any central repository and are not ‘recorded’ as such. These are done digitally as needed by typing them into a system, combining previously typed announcements where necessary. It is therefore not possible to provide an audio recording, as requested. The station announcements are held on a central system but not in a form that allows them to be distributed.
Please note that while access to the announcements has been provided to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, you are not granted any rights to any of the intellectual property that exists in it or granted any permission to make secondary uses of it. TfL owns all intellectual property (including, without limitation, copyright) in the material supplied and will defend such rights.
If you wish to make any secondary use of the material provided, you must first obtain the consent of TfL (which may be withheld) and, if consent is granted, a fee may be charged, in accordance with the terms of the Reuse of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005.
If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for any reason, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal as well as information on copyright and what to do if you would like to re-use any of the information we have disclosed.
