Request ID: FOI-1197-2425 Date published: 23 July 2024
You asked
Dear TfL FOI Team,
I am writing to seek clarification regarding my previous request for the audio announcements for all eleven tube lines. In your response, you mentioned that I already had access to a link that includes these announcements. However, the link provided appears to cover most TfL announcements and does not specifically include the complete set of tube announcements I am seeking.
Currently, I possess announcements for the Piccadilly, Central, Northern, Jubilee, and Bakerloo lines. As well as some bus, Overground, Tramlink, DLR, Elizabeth Line & Riverboat Services. I am still missing the announcements for the remaining tube lines: District, Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan, Victoria, and Waterloo & City.
Could you please provide a link or direct me to where I can access the full set of announcements for all eleven tube lines? Your assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time and help.
We answered
TfL Ref: FOI-1197-2425
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 14th July 2024 asking for London Underground announcements. Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy.
Specifically you asked the following, further to request FOI-0221-2425:
“I am writing to seek clarification regarding my previous request for the audio announcements for all eleven tube lines. In your response, you mentioned that I already had access to a link that includes these announcements. However, the link provided appears to cover most TfL announcements and does not specifically include the complete set of tube announcements I am seeking.
Currently, I possess announcements for the Piccadilly, Central, Northern, Jubilee, and Bakerloo lines. As well as some bus, Overground, Tramlink, DLR, Elizabeth Line & Riverboat Services. I am still missing the announcements for the remaining tube lines: District, Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan, Victoria, and Waterloo & City.
Could you please provide a link or direct me to where I can access the full set of announcements for all eleven tube lines?”.
I can confirm that we hold the information you require. However, I am afraid that the full set of recordings we are able to release have already been provided to you via that previous request. We are not able to share other announcements on the London Underground because of contractual prohibitions on disclosure, meaning that these are subject to en exemption under sectgion 43 of the Freedom of Information Act, which applies to information where release would prejudice commercial interests. We do not consider it in the public interest to breach these contractual obligations for the purposes of disclosure given that there is limited wider public interest in this material to support that. Those that we are able to provide have been provided via the link provided previously, the contents of which are updated periodically.
Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.
Yours sincerely,
David Wells FOI Case Officer FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
