Doors opening before train comes to a stop on the Bakerloo

[AbsoluteBlock]

It happens on some S-Bahn trains in Berlin, too.

Do you happen to remember which S-Bahn trains these were, by any chance?

One very well-designed door system I've seen was on an ÖBB CityJet train. After someone presses the button on the door, the button is illuminated and that specific door will open automatically as soon as they are all unlocked. Top-notch UX and beautifully simple, but it didn't appear to completely stop the customary button-mashing practised by certain passengers in a hurry to get off! The wording of the label ("Haltewunsch") also suggests that the driver is alerted so that it could be used for request stops, but I didn't get to see this in action.

 

[rebmcr]

One very well-designed door system I've seen was on an ÖBB CityJet train. After someone presses the button on the door, the button is illuminated and that specific door will open automatically as soon as they are all unlocked. Top-notch UX and beautifully simple, but it didn't appear to completely stop the customary button-mashing practised by certain passengers in a hurry to get off! The wording of the label ("Haltewunsch") also suggests that the driver is alerted so that it could be used for request stops, but I didn't get to see this in action.

M5000 trams have done the same thing for fifteen years. Many users remain unaware.

 

[Bikeman78]

I would have been most grateful if the time between the train stopping and the doors opening could have been reduced from the 4 to 5 seconds that appeared to be quite common, down to perhaps zero or -0.5s.

A lot of 317 drivers would release the doors within a fraction of a second of stopping. I'm sure one driver was managing to do it half a second before they stopped. It was always interesting to compare them with the Southern 455s. Essentially the same bit of kit, driven in a completely different way.