Enough with the "Stand Behind The Yellow Line!"

That is brilliant! My personal favourite is the call for any doctors or nurses! :-D

I'm surprised the Guard didn't hear this and deal with it, or is it because most seem to be back working from the rear cab now?

Please dont include me in your statement.

It is not something the guard can sort out as we dont have access to the on board train announcements equipment. The only person who can sort this out is the driver and i am surprised that these random messages were not dealt with as they not only go through the train but rather annoyingly in the cab as well.

TCMS? Totally Confusing Messaging System?

A friend has just told me he became the target of raised voices at Dalston Junction...

he explained he'd dropped his oyster wallet which went scooting across the platform [1] while there was no train present.

Absent-mindedly he steps across the line to retreive it and gets bawled at, he explains, by some overgrown-dreadlocked nutter [his exact words].
Apparently, he needed to ask permission from a member of staff who would retreive it... So, [he says] he goes off to hunt for the staff and returns to find the oyster card gone?

Honestly...

I read it as meaning the wallet ended up on the platform between the yellow line and the platform edge.

That is indeed the way I intended it to be read... I'm just translating it from my friends text message!

What would have happened to him if he had ignored the shouts, which by the way is extremely rude to a customer, and just picked up his oyster. Arrested? Escorted from station? Denied travel?

Good God we are all capable of judging when it's safe to do something. Maybe I shall call Dalston Junction station before I get in the car tomorrow, just to be sure it's safe to do so.

What i would like to know are these so could staff LOROLs own staff or outside agency staff? Because there in could lie to every ones answers answers as to why some are over sealous and some are not.

With regard to antharro's comment about the member of staff at Clapham Junction doing nothing, was this a member of LOROL station staff or staff from another company?

I would be very surprised if it was a LOROL member of station staff, none are employed at Clapham Junction.

I think the Yellow Line Zealots are only to be found on the ELL part of the LO.

Regarding the incident at Dalston Junction described by Artery Train Op, it was at that station that I was once barked at not to walk alongside (within the "wrong side" of that wretched yellow line) a just-arrived stationary train. You also seem to be pounced upon in with "can I help you?" a quasi-accusatory manner (it feels like you're being challenged to justify your presence at the station) if you stand still to look at the departure board at that station.

I too would be interested to know if these people are from an agency contracted to do this. I get the feeling they might be. Either way, their whole approach is all wrong. It comes across as marshalling and policing the passengers - sort of "keeping them in line" rather than being there to help. As a paying passenger, I'm growing tired of feeling like I'm under suspicion.