Germany's main railways company is to cut back its bilingual loudspeaker announcements on trains and at stations, the company's chief executive told a business magazine on Monday. Pro Bahn, a rail users' society, said that passengers aboard trains with multiple stops were getting "annoyed by so many announcements," as most messages in German are currently followed by English translations for the benefit of foreign visitors, according to dpa. Deutsche Bahn chief executive Ruediger Grube said in the weekly Wirtschaftswoche that the scale of the English announcements would be reduced "to concentrate on those lines and stations where international passengers travel." The rail company has also been attacked by German-language purists for using English names for some of its services, such as calling a help desk in Berlin's main station the "service point."
