"Pause Doors"

[jopsuk]

And even then, your car tends to stay the same size every time you drive it, unlike the trains in question.

Quite. Generally if your car isn't the same size as usual (ie towing a trailer, large racks etc) you really know about it at all times!

 

[90019]

And even then, your car tends to stay the same size every time you drive it, unlike the trains in question.

Mine changes size depending which one I take...

 

[Lockwood]

This is often a complete case of autopilot/reflex action as the driver often dosnt realise they have done it until they try to take power and realise they don't have interlock!

Then you get the passenger who is also on autopilot?

"Boarded at Waterloo. Stopped at Clapham. Stopped at Woking. Next stop will be Guildford, then."
*BIIING BIIING BIIIIIIIIING*
"That's my cue to get up and walk out of the doors then" *splat*

 

[A-driver]

Then you get the passenger who is also on autopilot?

"Boarded at Waterloo. Stopped at Clapham. Stopped at Woking. Next stop will be Guildford, then."
*BIIING BIIING BIIIIIIIIING*
"That's my cue to get up and walk out of the doors then" *splat*

Well it's more a case of creating an unnecessary danger-if someone leans on the door buttons they will open, a blind person may not realise you are away from a station etc.

Obviously no one is genuinely going to think that they have to get out just because the doors were released.

 

[jopsuk]

I once nearly stepped onto thin air- alighting at Westport, Ireland, from a train too long for the (terminus!) platform, if there was any announcement about the platform length I missed it (no, I wasn't asleep and I didn't have headphones in). Seems the Irish mark 3s didn't have SDO. Thankfully of course I'm a sensible chap who looks before he leaps, being well used to the fact that not all platforms are of the same height and distance from the carriage.

 

[HSTEd]

I stepped out of a HST trailer at Par and dropped about two feet further than I expected because I was on the wedge of the platform end.

That was a rather odd feeling.

 

[jon0844]

I believe that is for passengers, as at some stations there are unused platforms that may confuse the passengers as to which side to open the doors.

Oakleigh Park has one such sign, and it's definitely for the driver as there's no platform on that side at all.

I hate saying this as I know people take it the wrong way but it is one of those things that an outsider will see as a stupid thing to do, I mean how can a driver forget how many cars he has on! Same as how can he have opened the doors on the opposite side to the platform...could he not tell that the concreate structure with people standing on it was the platform as opposed to the grass verge the other side! But it's a real problem which you only really see once you have done the job for a while, once boredom sets in, once you start to relax slightly too much. When you stop at station number 91 that day thinking that you are finally on you way home after a 9 days stint looking forward to a few days off. It really is something that you need to experience to appreciate how it can happen.

Not at all. I can fully see why it can happen, and admire the skill of drivers in not having it happen far more often.

At Oakleigh Park, with the monitors on (platform 4?) the other side to the actual platform - I'd be worried that I'd naturally look out to the left at the screens and open the doors on the wrong side, even if there's a sign warning you not to.

There's obviously a level of concentration required but surely everyone (it's human) slips into autopilot mode at times and ignores things you see over and over again.

 

[Lockwood]

Well it's more a case of creating an unnecessary danger-if someone leans on the door buttons they will open, a blind person may not realise you are away from a station etc.

Obviously no one is genuinely going to think that they have to get out just because the doors were released.

I never try to underestimate public stupidity.

On a less cynical note though, someone not paying attention may well take it as a cue to action but stopping short [sic] of actually alighting.
My station, up, one step, "no, wait", sit back down.

 

[A-driver]

Oakleigh Park has one such sign, and it's definitely for the driver as there's no platform on that side at all.



Not at all. I can fully see why it can happen, and admire the skill of drivers in not having it happen far more often.

At Oakleigh Park, with the monitors on (platform 4?) the other side to the actual platform - I'd be worried that I'd naturally look out to the left at the screens and open the doors on the wrong side, even if there's a sign warning you not to.

There's obviously a level of concentration required but surely everyone (it's human) slips into autopilot mode at times and ignores things you see over and over again.

Oakleigh park isn't unique. Most monitor stations have screens on the left, infact most stations between southgate and brookmans park do. Add to that that the brake is in the left hand and there is more going on to the left. So it becomes a reflex to use the left hand to open doors to.