Opening doors at termini

While on C Stock, I personally prefer to open the doors first, then blow-down,
- just as the hoards are passing the cab- making 80% of them jump out of their skin! ;D

Shouldn't the first priority for any T/ops be to get rid of the cattle behind te bulkhead?

/Igelkotten

No comment!!

Other terms used are, among others:

The clientele
The stout yeomanry
The inmates
Our beloved customers
The sheep
The monkeys
The great unwashed horde

Sometimes, more specialised terms are employed. For example:

"Advertising boards" -shorthand for "That one's so drunk, he's a walking advertising board for the State Alchohol monopoly"

"Walking beauty boxes":
Those young party girls who bring a sportsbag full of make-up on the train, and continue applying enormous amounts of make-up, hairspray, perfume etc whilst seated and continously chatting on a mobile phone.

"Windbreakers with bank logos":
Our equivalent of Hooray Henrys or Sloane Rangers. Ordinarily to elitny to go by public transport, they do seem to like a bit of slumming from time to time. However, they often have seve difficulties understanding why they have to pay for a ticket. After all, they are sooo special, aren't they?

So, any London or Moscow equivalents to offer?

That he did, fatherless imbecilic goats at that, and over the PA at a very crowded station in the afternoon peak.

And the supervisor's response during the inevitable "please explain"-meeting was soemthing on the lines of "I am not giving you a bollocking for calling them imbecilic goats, because that is indeed what they are. I am giving you a bollocking for being so %#)§½ stupid that you forgot that the PTT button was activatedwhen you said it!"

That supervisor is one of our very best, if a bit eccentric at times. He does have a somewhat zen-like approach to things.

/Igelkotten

No, as you are supposed to use both hands to open the doors so it is a positive action!

MA is quite right on that one, prevents accendental opening and should have ensured that the train was stationary before opening (in theory). Stems back from the days of crew operation. However with speed sensing, CSDE etc less seems to be made of it nowdays.

To clarify, in response to the OP, I replied that what determines whether the driver opens the doors or shuts down first depends on which side the platform is. In no way did I say that that one or the other was the 'correct' way. While I agree that, in days gone by, as a guard we were told to use both hands to operate the door open buttons, the way trains have developed, particularly with OPO, has made it, rightly or wrongly, more likely that a driver will press both door open buttons with the same hand. Therefore, my answer to the OP still stand ;D ;D

However, the problem is, that the 'school' teach you a number of things that are not practical, or realistic, in the real world. Things which I will not discuss in a public forum, but will justify if you really want to know, via PM

Well I tried that earlier today on my few hours of C stock... Stopping, releasing the deadman then using two hands to open the doors! I was running late after a few stations! ;D

I have my own ways of making sure I don't open the doors on the wrong side anyway, which I picked up on the mainline which has no CSDE! OK, it involves talking to myself, but it works!! ;D

Which is actually a method used by some railways around the world. The japanese, for example, trains their drivers and guards to point at their appropriate signals with and say out loud to themselves that "This is signal XYZ123 for track A1, and it is showing proceed at restricted speed for my train".

The idea is that it will force people to reflect on what they are doing, and make them sort of think twice on what aspect they are shown etc -not the "uuuhhh... was that signal that I passed green or flashing yellow? syndrome that can pop up fromtime to time. I has also, supposedly, led to a drastic reduction in trains being dispatched from stations against a signal at danger -the "ding-ding and away problem" I believe it has been dubbed in Britain.

/Igelkotten