asdf wrote:
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:35:00 GMT, "Richard J."
wrote:

That's because the car-end doors can be opened by passengers. On
Line 14 in Paris, there are full-width gangways between cars, so
there's no risk of a passenger getting on to the track. (And on
other lines with older stock, it needs the Métro equivalent of a
J-door key to open the car-end doors.)

So how do the passengers get out in an emergency?

Good question, and I don't know the answer (and can't find it in Brian
Hardy's Paris Metro Handbook). Maybe there's an emergency release on
the sliding doors. I've seen emergency ladders clipped in place at car
ends. Métro trains don't have front doors in the cabs like LU,
presumably because the tunnels are mainly double-track.
--
Richard J.
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