On 26 Dec, 23:17, (Neil Williams)
wrote:
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:25:15 -0800 (PST), MIG

wrote:
Do you mean Moorgate? *I'm not aware of it at Bank*.

Ah, maybe I'm getting confused. *It must have been Euston going
towards Bank rather than the other way round. *But it seemed silly, as
there was clearly enough room for the doors to be opened.

Are they perhaps out of view of the DOO cameras? *Or is dispatch from
Euston purely manual?

There is a narrow section there. Hadn't really thought of that. Will
check out Charing Cross* and Moorgate** to see if there could be
equivalent situations.


*Although some peculiar behaviours have started at the north end with
platform staff trying to direct the flow.

That just gets peoples' backs up - they should give up on it.


It's weird, but it's a slight improvement on previous practice of
shutting the doors just before last person steps off and before anyone
has got on. I suspect they had lots of complaints about drivers doing
that at Bank and decided to staff the platform.


*There's a narrow extended bit at the front heading north as I
remember, not sure if it's the same at the back heading south.

**Moorgate has a strange alignment, as if the track was realigned
after the station was built, so the track is curved and the wall isn't.