On Jun 8, 10:05*am, wrote:
I had the dubious "pleasure" of riding on one of these yesterday. I do like
the way that the bum rests at the end of the cars are so high that you can't
actually sit on them without your legs dangling off the floor. You'd probably
need to be about 6'6 before they'd touch the floor. And if you try and sit on
them you find they're not actually quite deep enough anyway and you slowly
slide off again. So you just lean against them leaving a load of wasted space
behind. Genius.

Isn't the same true of the 1974 stock? They're designed for leaning,
not for sitting.

And the doors didn't seem to appreciate people leaning against them. I presume
someone did tell the designers about "rush hour"?
Most other Underground trains have this 'feature': too much pressure
on the doors forces them apart enough to trip the sensor, and the
train can't move off. The standard response appears to be for the
driver to threaten to take the train out of service unless passengers
stop leaning on them.