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"Will Inspector Sands please go to the control room." (translation: there is a fire in the control room but the general public doesn't need to know)

"Due to a purported emergency, please leave the station immediately." (translation: now it's serious)

hardly anyone moves

"Please follow staff instructions." (translation: could folks maybe panic just a teensy bit?)

I'm almost out by this point

as I leave the building, I hear sirens in the distance

Somehow this seems extremely British.