Train Platforms

IronWarrior said:
If one person dies per year and that barrier can save that person, then shouldn't we do it?
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You also have the effects on the driver and any witnesses etc. To be honest, I've no idea how many accidents or near misses there are in a year but, given how crowded a platform can be, I just think it's a dangerous place to be. I've never felt in danger myself as I stand well back, but I have seen quite a few people flirting with death by standing way too close.
 
You can find platform edge doors on the Jubilee line extension, and the new underground Crossrail stations in central London. They're unlikely to become standard on mainline platforms due to the sheer cost of installing them, plus it's easier to do on the underground as one line typically uses the same trains so lining up the doors isn't a problem.

After that House of Cards episode I tend to stand way back from the yellow line. :p
 
Spook187 said:
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I'm guessing a lack of proof reading with that one! :D
 
StriderX said:
Pfft, in our society of cubicle/open-planned office monogamy, gotta give people a way out that isn't too difficult right?
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Does it always have to hold up trains for everyone else though? When I used to use trains, mine seemed to be one delayed by someone jumping in front of a train on the other side of the county every week or so.
 
mrbazmondo said:
Does it always have to hold up trains for everyone else though? When I used to use trains, mine seemed to be one delayed by someone jumping in front of a train on the other side of the county every week or so.
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So instead of making barriers, just add snowplows to trains instead.

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wez130 said:
Most countries have the barriers now with automatic doors, even lesser developed countries like Thailand!
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Subways, yes. Trains? Nowhere near as common.

In the past 12 months I've caught trains in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Sweden, China, Slovakia, Poland, Croatia and Estonia - none with barriers.

Subways/MRT systems in China, Hong Kong and Singapore have gated entry to the trains.
 
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Because it would cost them to put those automatic barriers and they would probably raise the ticket prices even more.
 
When i get the tube home from central London I walk right to the end of the platform as it means I have more chance of getting on - and its the right end of the train when I get off. However the platform wall goes "in" a bit meaning at the very end the platform is only a couple of feet deep. And that's the end of the platform where the train comes in, so it flies past at full wack. I always stay away from the very end of the platform for that reason, yet nine times out of ten some crazy will step around me and stand in that tiny area between me, the wall and the end of the platform. Mad.
 
The ones in Korea are very safe. Pretty cool jingle too :D



Thought I was approaching some main event in a JRPG most of the time! I think I only went in the subway for the jingles.
 
It's fine for underground where all the trains are exactly the same but the rolling stock on regular train lines gets shifted about a fair amount depending on what they have actually working on the day.

For example I got on the train from Kings Cross to Cambridge the other day which normally has 2 different types of train running on it but something completely different showed up.

You also have to deal wit the fact that trains sometimes turn up and they are not the same length they normally are.
 
Dis86 said:
Murder maybe but the suicides would surely just jump away from the station?
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well yeah a barrier isn't going to prevent them from dropping a toaster in the bath back at home obviously, but then again that isn't going to delay anyone's train journey and has nothing to do with the train station
 
dowie said:
well yeah a barrier isn't going to prevent them from dropping a toaster in the bath back at home obviously, but then again that isn't going to delay anyone's train journey and has nothing to do with the train station
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What I'm saying is if someone is inclined to throw themselves infront of a train, they don't need to be at the station to do it. Heck, I've been involved with 2 train suicides and neither was at a station. 1 was a level crossing and the other was about 150m out from a station (think it was Grantham from memory).
 
Dis86 said:
What I'm saying is if someone is inclined to throw themselves infront of a train, they don't need to be at the station to do it. Heck, I've been involved with 2 train suicides and neither was at a station. 1 was a level crossing and the other was about 150m out from a station (think it was Grantham from memory).
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it is sort of stating the obvious, sure someone can commit suicide somewhere else and that may or may not involve a train

it doesn't mean it isn't still worthwhile to try and prevent it happening where it is known to occur

I mean if I owned a tall building and people kept getting access to the roof in order to commit suicide I'd still think it would be worthwhile trying to stop people from having access to the roof and maybe leave a poster with a helpline number up at the access point despite someone perhaps pointing out that there are other tall places available for people to throw themselves off
 
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