Boltar wrote:

I read apparently that Southern had been having problems with its train doors
not opening on stations north of the Thames because these hadn't been
programmed into the database that uses GPS to know where it is! Is it just me
or is having some GPS controlled database system being used to open the
bloody doors just a teensy bit overkill?? Do they think the driver is
too stupid to know when he's at a station and might try to open them when he's
bowling along at 60?? Sure have some sort of interlock that prevents them
opening when the train is moving but for gods sake , was this implemented just
to keep some technicians in work? And what happens during an emergency?
What next , GPS controlled toilets that won't flush on certain parts of the
network with live networked updates of the turd count at every section?!

No wonder money in the rail industry is in short supply if they're wasting
funds on stupid systems such as this. Someone tell me its not true...

B2003

I don't know why the main line rail companies don't just adopt the
Underground's Correct Side Door Enable system, that prevents doors being
opened on the wrong sides of the train. It can cope with double-sided
platforms, bi-directional platforms, and also automatic cutting in and
cutting out of doors on short platforms. Sorted. Why devise something
over the top to do the same job?

Lee