In message , Helen Deborah Vecht
writes

At Uxbridge, I think the practice is to try and separate the Met Line
from the Piccadilly. Keeping both sets of doors open would encourage
yobs to use the trains as shortcuts between platforms and allow trains
to get very cold.

The reason platform 2 isn't used at Uxbridge is that the mirrors and
monitors are not adequate to see the length of the train properly from a
Piccadilly line train. On the side we do open (Platform 3) you can
observe the whole length of the train from the cab when departing. I
assume (but don't definitely know) that similar problems occur with the
Met. trains.

As any train can use any platform there, it would be difficult to
maintain any separation anyway.
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"Lawrence Myers" wrote in message ...
Robin May wrote:
"J. Public" wrote the following in:


Also, what's the problem with opening both sets of doors at
stations like Uxbridge, Golders Green etc., where there are
platforms on both side of the train.

I'm not sure. They certainly open both sets of doors on the eastbound
District line platform at Barking.

Yes. That's to allow cross platform interchange to and from both the Gospel
Oak Line, on the left, and Shoeburyness trains on the right.

Lawrence Myers

what kind of neighborhood is barking? safe and convient to central london?
thx for your reply

charles

(Mark Brader) wrote in message ...
Robin May:
I'm not sure. They certainly open both sets of doors on the eastbound
District line platform at Barking.

Lawrence Myers:
Yes. That's to allow cross platform interchange to and from both the
Gospel Oak Line, on the left, and Shoeburyness trains on the right.

So do people then cross through the District trains to get between the
Gospel Oak and Shoeburyness lines, too, like at Jamaica station on the
LIRR in New York? Or are their routings such that there would be no
reason to do that anyway?

what kind of neighborhood is barking and is it convient to cental london?