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Old February 13th 05, 08:24 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Guy Perry Guy Perry is offline
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Default Tube doors not opening at station

wrote:
Kevin Davidson wrote:
...was a very brief "beep", but the doors didn't open. After a minute or
so (the amount of time the doors would normally be open) the recorded
voice saying the train was leaving came on, and the train pulled away.


Is that a situation to push the emergency stop button?


As the word "emergency" states: no! It sure is an unpleasant situation
for the passengers, which probably could have been prevented, yet it is
no emergency situation and there might have been good reason too.