"CharlesPottins" wrote in message
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Passing through Ruislip the other day I noticed a guy sitting in a ticket
collectors' booth on the opposite platform from the station exit. I've
seen
someone manning it twice now, and thought it odd because there is no exit
on
that side of the station, you have to cross the footbridge. I looked at
the
booth this morning, and it has signs on top saying "Assistance" and "Way
Out"
but there is no way out, I checked. Nor is it a place like Rayners Lane
where
people change trains, so I would not have thought there was any special
need
for an assistance point. Could be the guy is doing a sort of sentry duty
occasionally to keep an eye on schoolkids etc, but I wouldn't have
expected the
ticket booth to have been put there just for that . . . Next time I see
him if
I'm not in a rush I'll ask!



Ive seen staff on hand to assist the driver to get the passengers off of the
trains that terminate at Ruislip. I guess they are there to keep the delay
down, by having the driver walk the whole length of the train twice and help
with passenger enquries.