"Chris Tolley" wrote in message
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On 18 Mar 2005 04:12:06 -0800, Rupert Candy wrote:

It's certainly a fair question - I have seen large signs attached to
platform monitors (IIRC at High Wycombe) which say OPEN DOORS OTHER
SIDE, suggesting that mistakes do happen!

me2, but I had always assumed that those were in case of slam-door
stock. You live and learn, eh.

'Open doors other side' seems to be used on DOO lines where the platform is
on the off side (e.g. for Up trains on the reversible Down platform 2 at
High Wycombe. The signs for passengers of slam door trains were typically
white lettering on a red background, reading 'Alight other side' where there
was something a bit like, but not quite, a platform on the wrong side. One
example was platform 7 (now 6) at London Bridge pre the alterations of the
early 1970s, where the post office 'Mount' platform was on the other side of
the train.

Peter