![]() It never occurred to them that they had to drop the window, lean out and open the door handle from outside. I found a Dutch couple struggling to get off at Dunster. Modern passengers do not know how to get in and how to get out of these old carriages. And this is only for starters, braking policies that throw you off your feet and on and on and on. A train driver told me the driver probably couldn’t see me (despite being the front carriage) as the cameras are not much bigger than a postage stamp, there are a whole bank of pictures jammed together, with limited fields of view and unintelligible in bright light or wet weather. I spent decades travelling on slam door trains including Southern Mark One EMUs, always leaning on an open window too (NOT out!) and never had a problem of any kind, yet have been injured by being shut in sliding doors on Southern stock (fortunately a passenger reopened the doors to release me), plus only a fortnight ago an Overground train locked the doors just as my hand touched the open button at a terminus and drove off with me leaning on it expecting it to be re-released. ![]() A very civilised atmosphere has prevailed on the trains I ve used – so why are ORR worrying about this when problems involving safety at all levels on TOCS and NR are rife? WCR has Guards, many services do not – and passengers fall under trians, get items trapped in doors and are dragged etc unseen. Do WCR suffer from door abuse? Not to my knowledge.
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