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 #1300499  by pumpers
 
deathtopumpkins wrote:
In North and South Stations that sound plays every few minutes randomly. It does always make me look up, but it doesn't ever really seem to coincide with any train information changing on the board.
Sort of like those news radio stations that play the sound of those old fashioned teletypes in the background just for effect, even though one probably hasn't existed for many years and probably most listeners under 50 have no idea what the sound really is. JS