In message , at 20:27:39
on Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Richard J. remarked:
Everyone who is going
to get off at a station congregates towards the vestibules, so they
can get off as soon as the doors open.

How fortunate that their trains are sufficiently lightly loaded that
there is space in the vestibules to allow this.

The vestibules are quite large! Partly because of the need to
accommodate the stairs, but they are impressively big.

I've also seen some commuter trains in Copenhagen that had no seats at
all in some of the carriages; for storing bikes, rather than getting
more people in, though.

None of this UK nonsense where people look up from their paper/phone
when the train has stopped and ask "is this X", and then rush to the
doors obstructing the people who are now getting on. The Japanese
also have very good discipline getting on and off trains.

So good that they need staff to push people on to the trains.

You are probably thinking of the Tokyo underground in rush hour, where
the pushing is to get more people in, rather than get people in faster.
Not every train gets that crowded!
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Roland Perry