In message , at 13:15:07
on Tue, 8 Mar 2011, David Cantrell remarked:
These days I find everyone congregates in a mass in
front of the big departure broad, and as soon as a platform is announced
about a third of them will suddenly start scurrying in the same
direction. If you are any distance from the front of the "clump", you
will get held up.

This wasn't the case when I travelled to Edinburgh in December, when all
the trains were ****ed up because of the snow and so were horribly
overcrowded. The queue just moved forward and through the gate. I
would have thought that with all the cancellations at the time that
would have been the time to expect the behaviour you describe.

Was it a busy train - you simply can't get that many people through the
ticket check and onto the platform in a minute (which was the time
asserted up the thread). My own experience is that if they announce the
platform 8 minutes in advance (a typical worst case), if you hurry
along, you can get to the carriages at the front of the train with only
one or two minutes to spare.
--
Roland Perry