Julie Berry

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Julie Berry
OccupationVoiceover Artist

Julie Berry is a British professional voice artist based in London whose career spans over 20 years. She is well known for being the primary voice on various rolling stock across both the National Rail network, and TfL's Piccadilly Line.

Julie also starred in numerous theatrical productions in the 1980s, and has also acted in various television shows and movies.

Station announcements

From 1988 through to 2003, Julie was one of multiple announcer options on the Infomat automated station announcements system. Julie was typically used for new recordings, such as new stations, as a replacement for Angela Peberdy. Infomat had been fully replaced by other announcement systems on the railway network by 2003.

Rolling stock announcements

Class 700, 707, 717

The Siemens-built Class 700, 707 and 717 series use Julie Berry for the primary voice of their passenger information systems, announcing calling patterns, destination information, interchanges and points of interest.

Bombardier Electrostar and Turbostar series

The ADtranz, and later Bombardier, -star series of trains utilise Julie Berry for their passenger information system. She is present on all of these trains in some form, providing almost every announcement on these units, with the exception of the London Overground's "Capitalstar" Class 378 units, which use Emma Hignett for everything except the coach number announcement.