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Dave Newt · April 9th 05, 08:04 PM posted to uk.transport.london

wrote:
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.

Agreed. Though, to be fair, how many times should he try? If they don't
shut, all the trains stop and get delayed until they do.