Mrs Redboots wrote the following
in:

Head of Toast wrote to uk.transport.london on Sun, 31 Oct 2004:

They are generally open and closed automatically on the tubes.
infact, in 10 years on living in London, I can't remember having
to open/close a tube door myself.

Obviously you never travel on the District line, then.

The buttons never work on the District line, the doors are always
opened by the driver. They stopped using those buttons years ago.

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