View Single Post
  #8   Report Post  
Old June 20th 09, 10:25 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Tim Woodall Tim Woodall is offline
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity at LondonBanter: Aug 2006
Posts: 112
Default Watford Junction Oyster validators

On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:44:33 GMT,
Neil Williams wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:21:44 +0000 (UTC), Tim Woodall
wrote:

"Beep, beep, beep" the wrong doors close and then the other doors close
and the train departs. I did remember hearing once of a blind person who
was injured when he got out of a train on the wrong side when it came
into a very unusual platform at his normal station but that's the first
time I've ever seen this happen in a modern train.


On LM?

Yes.

Very surprising, given that there are guards (who would go to the
correct side of the train to do the release), and given that the
platforms are on the same side all the way from H&W to Bletchley
inclusive...

It was the 22:54 departure from Euston.

At that time of night the trains sometimes come in on the "wrong"
platform. I'm sure there is, or used to be, a train that terminates at
WJ that comes in on platform 9.

Tim.

--
God said, "div D = rho, div B = 0, curl E = - @B/@t, curl H = J + @D/@t,"
and there was light.

http://www.woodall.me.uk/