On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:47:59 +0100, Zen83237 wrote:

On a Victoria Line
train at about 5.20 pm that after the doors closed at Oxford Circus then
sat for a couple of minutes unable to start. After a lot of sounds of
air bleeding the train pulls a few hudred yards into the tunnel then
comes to a very abrupt stop. Waits for 5 minutes, no announcements. more
sounds of bleeding air then sets off and again abruptly stops. This
happens several more times.

Get to Warren St and I was in two mids whether to get off. But the train
wasn't withdrawn so think ok.

A lot of very abrupt announcements from the dispatcher not to join the
train, the doors are closing but the train still didn't move with the
doors still open. More announcements to beware of the closing doors,
well people needn't have worried because the train pulled out with doors
open. The doors finally closed as we abruptly stopped half in and half
out of the tunnel. Eventually get turfed off.

There's two news reports on the web:

url:http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...9134-mind-the-
doors-then-tube-train-leaves-station-with-them-still-open.do

url:http://www.tntmagazine.com/tnt-today...2/tube-leaves-
station-with-doors-open.aspx

In the evening standard (thisislondon) report a TfL spokesman said "No
one was hurt. London Underground is immediately investigating why this
may have occurred and the train has been taken out of service. We
apologise to any passengers who were concerned by the incident."

No mention of RAIB, and when I spoke to the RAIB reporting point after
reading the first internet post about the incident, they weren't aware of
the occurrence. Could TfL may have "forgotten" to notify RAIB? Shouldn't
the train be quarantined in situ until RAIB either attend or agree it's
movement?

Rgds

Denis McMahon