On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 02:15:07 -0700 (PDT), Offramp
wrote this gibberish:

On Apr 8, 9:49 am, MarkVarley - MVP
wrote:
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 21:32:32 -0700 (PDT), Offramp
wrote this gibberish:



On Apr 3, 8:06 pm, Tristan Miller
wrote:
Greetings.

What is the purpose of the "open" buttons on the doors of the London
Underground carriages? On every Underground train I've used, the doors
open automatically at every station. Is/was there a time or place where
they don't open automatically and the buttons must be used?

Here is a question you can ask fellow-travellers.
On either side of the inside of doors on a Northern Line train there
are two vertical yellow bars.
( You can see them in this picturehttp://tinyurl.com/5uws7q). These
slightly slanting yellow bars are the same as any other yellow bars,
vertical or horizontal, in the carriage, EXCEPT that there is a black
bit of plastic about 6 inches from the top. The question is: What is
that piece of black plastic there for?

I'm going to be on the northern line in an hour and now this is going
to be really bugging me, what is it there for?

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I hope you get this in time.
If Visually Impaired People put their hands on the black bit then
their hand is level with the Open Door switch. That was how they were
meant to find it.

I just got back to see this, I figured it was because the handrails on
the trains are colour coded to their routes (lines) but the northern
line being black someone decided to make the handrails yellow as it
looks nicer and brighter and added black bits for the colour coding.
Thats what I came up with anyway :-)


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