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Re: Video showing Paris Metro Line 1 headway |
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Posted by Fytton on Tue Feb 9 06:36:56 2010, in response to Re: Video showing Paris Metro Line 1 headway, posted by Jsun21 on Tue Feb 9 00:16:07 2010. 'Having the door open prior to the stop was common in the UK when they had passenger operated doors installed in first generation EMUs.'It certainly was, for the first several generations in fact, from around WW1 to the 1970s. Videos of morning rush-hour trains arriving at London termini show trains still moving along the platform with most of their doors already open. 'No numbers on injuries but the practice persisted for a number of years.' There were many injuries - including passengers waiting on the platform hit by swinging doors - and as noted it was a number of decades rather than a number of years. The last 'slam-door' trains on the Southern Electric network lasted until about five years ago. The HS125s (which are diesel-hauled), dating from the 1970s and still in service, have slam doors, and these could be opened freely at first. Only after fatalities resulting from people, some of them blind, alighting on the wrong side of the train did they fit central locking to prevent such accidents. |
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