AWAITING the arrival of the London train on Monday afternoon on platform Five, my husband, myself and a young woman were amused no end by the announcements over the Tannoy.

If we could guess one or two items out of the announcer’s speech, that was the limit. Maybe we were in a black spot?

Or is the system just so rubbish that listening from anywhere in the station, apart from right next to the gentleman speaking, is impossible?

I would have thought that in this day and age someone could have come up with a system that we can hear and understand.

From our point of view, the gentleman concerned was wasting both his time and ours.

Sorry, sir – whoever you are.

Yours in sorrow.

Rita Crombleholme, Deramore Drive, Badger Hill, York.