Sydney Trains Announcer Taylor Owynns

Description

Every day from dawn to way past dusk more than a million Australians listen intently to what Taylor Owynns has to say. Sometimes multiple times a day. Yet ask them to point her out on the street and they’d fail; few would probably even know her name despite her voice being part of the fabric and rhythm of their lives. And that’s OK with her. “I’m just this disembodied voice ” she says over a drink in a pub in Sydney’s inner west. “I’m happy not to be recognised”. Ms Owynns isn’t a host on the radio; if she was you’d at least be able to name her. Rather she’s the voice of trains and trams in New South Wales. She has been the purveyor of the familiar sonorous sound heard on platforms from Central to Penrith and from Newcastle to Nowra for two decades. And for a time at Melbourne’s Flinders St station too. The soothing sound of this Melburnian’s voice telling you where the next train will be stopping upcoming engineering work or to always remember to tap off with your Opal card is part of the background hubbub of the Harbour City.