Jonathan Morris wrote:
Alex Watson wrote:
Do Tube trains even have door opening buttons anymore? I know the newer
District line stock doesn't, including the refurbished D (?) stock.
Although.. I remember they *used* to leave the doors shut during winter,
so presumably the system still works for those trains with buttons.

You certainly don't need to press the button anymore on any LUL trains
in my experience. I'm sure you used to press the open button on the
Central Line trains, but can't remember when I last did it. Can you
still close them, or is control completely removed for the passenger?


I don't think there have ever been any close door buttons on the
Underground. The first time since the 1930s or 1940s that buttons were
introduced was on the D stock on the District, and pretty soon they got
into a pattern of just opening all the doors in summer, but leaving the
passengers to open them (not close them) in the winter. They also had
a system where, when standing at the terminus, one door per carriage
would be open.

I can't remember having to use the door open buttons anywhere on the
Underground since the Jubilee Line Extension opened. Presumably this
was something to do with the doors being linked to the platform edge
doors on that line. Why they then stopped being used on other lines I
don't know.

On the DLR passengers always have to open the doors, but can't close
them.