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[email protected] · April 14th 11, 01:00 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article
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(Mizter T) wrote:

On Apr 12, 10:27*pm, wrote:

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[staff]
IMHO, many of them enjoy intimidating passengers in order to feel
powerful.

Too true, especially of cyclists. I had some pretty offensive
treatment from a SWT guard with my bike between Wandsworth Town and
Putney.

What happened?

He got very huffy because my bike was in the doorway which he wanted to
open the doors from at Putney, starting as the train left Wandsworth Town
(where he had used another doorway), long before he needed to get me out
of my seat to move it. He was very unpleasant about it. Taking a bike on
slow trains from Vauxhall to Putney is a bit of a pain because the side
the doors open on keeps changing from one station to the next. There are
bike spaces in class 450 trains with tip-up seats but even well into the
evening or mid-afternoon you try shifting someone sitting in one of them.

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Colin Rosenstiel