00:00For anyone who's shared a train carriage with a stranger's video on music playing at full
00:04volume, the irritation will be familiar.
00:06The government's new Share the Carriage Not the Noise campaign puts phone speakers in
00:10the spotlight.
00:11On the Tynaway Metro, Nexus says staff have already got powers to act when loud music
00:16disrupts other passengers.
00:17I don't.
00:18I think it's terrible.
00:20It's rude.
00:21It's rude.
00:22It's not very nice.
00:24I hate it.
00:24You know, the people who like have FaceTime on a train.
00:28Why would you do that?
00:29Or people walking like traffic centres on FaceTime with their like girlfriend, boyfriend or whatever.
00:35Well, having sat from Lucas all the way down to Newcastle on the train a few weeks ago,
00:41we were treated as some chap who sat there and all he did was phone people and speak in
00:46a very loud voice.
00:47And you couldn't think, you couldn't read, you couldn't do anything because you were
00:50listening to him.
00:51Um, so, you know, that really, um, it was an extreme example, I think, but I could do
00:57without it.
00:59I had some, like, spatial awareness.
01:02It's like that.
01:03It is nice to listen in to the conversation, especially when it's something nice.
01:06It's like, trying to break up over the phone or drama, I'm like, ooh, I love this.
01:11And then they get off the train and I'm like, aw, I don't want to finish that.
01:14I just like listening to the train.
01:16If I forget my headphones, it's a nice listen to.
01:19Yeah.
01:21The national measures announced by the Department of Transport in October have two distinct parts.
01:26On rail services, a campaign will remind passengers to use headphones.
01:30People who refuse to stop when asked by authorities can be removed at the next station or face prosecution
01:36and fines of up to £1,000.
01:39On buses in England, local transport authorities can introduce and enforce their own rules,
01:44with fixed penalties of up to £100 for nuisance behaviour.
01:49Nexus has welcomed the initiative, but says Metro already has its own arrangements.
01:54Staff and travel safe officers can intervene over loud music.
01:58The bus penalties do not automatically apply to Metro services.
02:03People listening on my one with my mates, I hear them giggling behind me whenever I say something weird.
02:07So I like to do it in return.
02:09So are you a speaker talker then, are you?
02:11If I'm with my friend group, yeah.
02:12If I'm on my own, no.
02:14So you think, if there's a load of you, you think everybody wants to hear all of you chatting on
02:18them, is that right, yeah?
02:18Maybe, especially on the train to college, they definitely were listening in.
02:25Well, yes, I think there is an element of that, isn't there?
02:29Maybe not so much in this area, but you read stories about, you know, Manchester, London, other places,
02:37and people wading in and paying the price, really.
02:44I don't think it's as common as some of the tabloids like to make out, though.
02:49Passengers can report low-level antisocial behaviour discreetly to Metro control by text or WhatsApp.
02:55Nexus asks them to include the train's location and the direction of travel.
