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Passenger door buttons gone on refurb D Stock
On Feb 19, 3:15 pm, "MIG" wrote:
On Feb 19, 3:03 pm, James Farrar wrote: On 19 Feb 2007 06:50:17 -0800, "Boltar" wrote: Can't LU make their minds up if they want these or not? It seems they occilate between having them then not on various train types over the years. Why have they been taken of the D stock? Seems a bit of a retrograde step. They haven't been used for, ooh, seven or eight years now. When I first moved to London (1997) the doors were only passenger-controlled in the winter, but after a couple of years they went to driver control at all times. I know not why. However, TTBOMK, *no* Underground trains that have passenger-controlled door buttons actually use them any more. The total ceasing of use of door buttons seems to coincide with the opening of the Jubilee Line Extension in 1999, where there are doors on the platform as well. Presumably there wouldn't be a logical way of combining the platform doors with passenger control (partially sited people aware of platform doors opening and walking into closed train doors etc), and it would be confusing to use them at some stations but not others on the same line. I don't know why that necessarily affects other lines or why the trains for the JLE were built with buttons in the first place. Oh I love that typo. Partially sighted obviously. But the result might be someone being partially sited ... |
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