On Feb 19, 9:38*am, wrote:
On Feb 19, 8:44*am, Edward Cowling London UK

wrote:
Northern Line Information". Now it's being given a challenge by "This
train will be held here to be regulated".

I think they seem to think if they delay the train it'll somehow
magically be able to alleviate overcrowding further down the line when
theres a gap in the service. Trouble is , what the geniuses in the
control room don't seemed to have worked out is that a full train aint
gonna pick up any more people whether it leaves now or in 10 minutes
so they might just as well let it go on its way so at least the
passengers it already is carrying won't be delayed along with everyone
on the platforms.

I expect that there are appropriate and inappropriate situations.

This morning I was standing on the northbound Northern Line platform
at London Bridge, along with many others, looking at a very full train
that was being held for several minutes.

It certainly didn't help us or anyone arriving later to be able to
look at this full train that we couldn't get on.

And it certainly didn't help the high proportion of people on the
train who were likely to be intending to get off at Bank, one stop
away.

I suppose it might just have helped a few people arriving late at Bank
to enter the space vacated when those people finally got off, but the
doors are generally shut at Bank Northbound before everyone has got
off, let alone anyone has got on, so who knows.