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Jack taylor wrote:
Yes it is when a much larger majority of people are inconvenienced on
their
journey on the spurious excuse that a disabled person *may* want to
travel
and *may* be disadvantaged if PIS or PA systems are out of action.
The
responsible and sensible thing to do is to allow the train to
continue until
such point as a replacement set can be found to take over the
diagram, not
to take the set out of service at the first opportunity. Anyone who
thinks
otherwise must be a cretin.


Boltar wrote:
If the train needed to be evacuated it would be helpful to be able
to
announce that to all the passengers... Not just to disabled
passengers

The guard is quite capable of going down the train.

operating. What's wrong with getting off at East Croydon and
getting
on the next service which stops at Gatiwck Airport? They are pretty
frequent, aren't they?

Ever tried to get a full train load of passengers + luggage into an
already
full train in the rush hour (or anytime for that matter)?

B2003

A lot of people get off at East Croydon!

Also, I was responding to the point that there should be a spare set
sent out and saying how it doesn't sound like it will help if the
service is frequent anyway. Sending out a spare set or not, you will
still have people transfering between the two trains and I fail to see
how you can prevent people getting on to the new train that didn't get
off the old one.