"TheOneKEA" wrote in message
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"Mike Hudgell" wrote in message
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"Steve Fitzgerald" ] wrote in message
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We've been told that it will be about 1/3 round the loop via T4 and
2/3
to T5.
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And I'd bet you'll still get people getting on the wrong train....

Mike

So I suppose changing the destination boards to say "Heathrow T4" and
"Heathrow T5" with lots of posters all over the Piccadilly (even the
rolling stock) stating that all Heathrow trains pass Terminals 1, 2
and 3 wouldn't help?

Welllll, they might, but you have to account for the punters (sometimes) awe
inspiring ability to ignore information. A case in point, Arnos westbound
this morning, train from Cockfosters pulls into P4. A reverser was standing
in P3 waiting to depart westbound, for the 2 or 3 minutes it took me to
walk along the platform from the rear car to the footbridge over to the
depot, the SA was making constant, perfectly clear PA anouncments that the
train in P3 would be the first to depart westbound. To a man and woman, the
passengers on the train in P4 ignored them - until the door chimes on the P3
train started - which was a signal for about 2 dozen eager commuters to cast
their Metros aside and hurl themselves blindly across the platform in
attempt to beat the doors and save themselves that vital 90 seconds getting
to their destination. The driver on the P3 train had to re-open to prevent
the punters getting caught in the doors but at least one managed to beat him
to it and actually ran into a closed door. Of course, once the advance party
had made the cross platform trip it gave shed loads of others the same idea,
so the train had to wait for a gap in the herd to get the doors closed
again, causing yet more delay. It all could have been avoided if those who
wanted to catch the first train had heeded the SA's PA announcments whilst
the regulator was getting his signals sorted out.
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