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Re: Video showing Paris Metro Line 1 headway |
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Posted by Fytton on Tue Feb 9 14:11:10 2010, in response to Re: Video showing Paris Metro Line 1 headway, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Tue Feb 9 13:31:31 2010. Me: 'Videos of morning rush-hour trains arriving at London termini show trains still moving along the platform with most of their doors already open.'AEM7: 'Don't your railways have conductors to open the doors? Passenger operated doors reek of a certain third-world type of operation... ' Traditional Southern trains had a door to every seating bay: a ten-car train (the maximum length) would have had up to 100 doors per side! And we have one guard (conductor) per train... The reason the Southern Railway favoured this arrangement was for speed of egress when a full train arrived at the terminus, to ensure a prompt turn-round - none of the Southern's central London termini had any relayu tracks beyond the buffer stops. Anyway, that is in the past now, as all UK trains except the HS125s have sliding doors. The HS125s have doors only at each end of each car, as they are main-line trains making few stops; these doors are still opened by passengers - who have to open the window first, as there are handles only on the outside. The doors have to be unlocked by the guard first, though, and there are platform staff on stations served by these trains, to ensure that all doors are closed before departure. |
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