Trains by The Kids Start at St James

Amira: Part Two: Announcements [announcement tones] Electronic voice: Doors closing. Please stand clear. Jasmine: Doors Closing. Please turn clear. Gabriel: Or at least a translucent green. Abi: Doors Closing. Please. Please be nice. Please. Mia: Why don’t they say ‘all aboard’ anymore? Chris: Did they ever say that? Amira: Yeah, like ‘all aboard!’ Jasmine: My desk is all a board. It’s 100% particle board. [announcement tones] Electronic voice: For your own safety, please mind the gap. Abi: For your own safety, please mind the gap between your teeth. Gabriel: For your own safety, please mind the gap between perception and reality Amira: For your own safety, please mind the gender pay gap. Jasmine: [DAD DROPPING HIS PHONE DOWN THE GAP STORY] [announcement tones] Electronic voice: This train will stop at Museum, Central, Green Square [fade out] Gabriel: This train will stop at the edge of the universe, AT THE VERY LIMITS OF SPACE TIME ITSELF. But also at Central. Jasmine: This train will stop at nothing to get what it wants. [announcement tones] Electronic voice: For Western Line Services, please change at Central. Chris: Please change at Central. Please change. Please. Change your ways. Change the worst parts of yourself. Be a little kinder. Mia: Please change at Central. Change your habits. Exercise more. Gabriel: Please change, please transform at Central. Into a higher consciousness. Jasmine: Please change into something a little more comfortable, at Central. Slip slop slap. Abi: Please change at central for a connecting service to Blacktown, leaving from platform 18. Here’s Phil, with some neo-soul platform-changing music while you do that.

Mia: Welcome to Trains by the Kids. The kids would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which this tour takes place. We pay our respects to their elders, past and present, and recognise that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been telling stories on this land and about this land for over 60 thousand years. Jasmine: Please make your way from Hyde Park to the Elizabeth Street entrance of St James station. Go down the stairs and walk through the tunnel. Tunnels are a great place to be alone with your thoughts. Or alone with OUR thoughts. Abi: Once you’re inside the station, make your way to platform 2 and get the next train to Central. Amira: Please make sure you tap on with your opal cards or credit cards. We would hate for you to get a fine. Please change at central for a connecting service to Blacktown, leaving from platform 18.

[I am texts beginning with names, then circling through each person one at a time, then turning into an echoing cacophony.] Here’s Phil, the sound designer and Trains by the Kids DJ, with some elevator waiting music. Phil will be bringing you all the hits all train-ride long.