Dave Newt wrote:
Clive Coleman wrote:
In message , steve
writes

Taking full trains out of service and holding full trains does not

benefit most people but makes the lights on the screen more even.

I would doubt that "full trains" are taken out of service unless
they
fail a trip tester or some other related safety problem, perhaps
you

I'm sure I've heard the driver announce once or twice, having failed
to
successfully close the doors twice, that if they failed again (i.e.
if
people didn't let them shut) he would consider the train defective
and
have it removed from service.


I don't know if this was just a threat or not though.

Thats the kind of attitude that raises stress levels of commuters and
gets drivers hated. If the train was that full not really faulty and
taken out of service how much would he be costing TFL in compensation
payments for delays (@ £2.xx per person on that train and the others
affected) and how would (s)he expect to remove the train from the
station after dumping a train load of people on the platform. I have
been in the situation where a peak Eastboud Piccidilly was turned
around at Hyde Park Corner (and it was the first train in 10 minutes) -
it left the station despite the platforms being so overcrowded that it
was impossible for myself and many others to fit the correct side of
the yellow line (+ was too crowded for the carriages to be closed one
by one)