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Remembering JSB Brownson, Mumbai's first railway announcer
Updated On: 02 March, 2014 08:34 AM IST | | Saurabh Datar
<p>Almost 50 years ago, local trains saw another landmark — the railway announcer. Saurabh Datar went looking for the story of late JSB Brownson, one of Mumbai’s first announcers, who developed the public address system into what it is today</p>
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It’s hard, nigh impossible, to imagine a Mumbai railway station without the announcer. How would you know which platform to run to? What is the order of the coaches in your train? Yet, the suburban railway system once functioned without these guiding voices, until one man decided to provide this service to passengers. That man was JSB Brownson.
JSB Brownson (left) with Prakash Kurbet, the current Dadar announcer, who attended the AIR training sessions, and learnt the nuances of the trade from him
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