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Post by Colin on Jul 18, 2007 19:09:20 GMT
I notice that all the platforms at Gloucester Road now have a 'mind the gap' message every time a train appears in the platform. Why?  The platforms are straight & there isn't a gap to mind! Metronet are (or should that be were) refurbishing the station, and the announcements sound exactly the same as at Bow Road - another Metronet triumph. Have they just installed it as a bog standard item without actually using any brain cells? Am I missing something? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2007 19:12:11 GMT
No, it's the station thats missing summat!
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Post by Tom on Jul 18, 2007 21:28:27 GMT
Metronet are (or should that be were) refurbishing the station, and the announcements sound exactly the same as at Bow Road - another Metronet triumph. Have they just installed it as a bog standard item without actually using any brain cells? East Acton and Bethnal Green are the same, so I would suspect it is a standard thing. East Acton is curved and I could just about understand it, but Bethnal Green...  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2007 11:51:17 GMT
It's just in case I happen to want to travel from that station. It's unlikely but it's nice to see such forward thinking.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2007 12:42:04 GMT
Assuming you really are a Gappe bat.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2007 1:24:34 GMT
Of course I am. What other creature would spend so long in underground tunnels?
Oh yeah, traindrivers.....
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2007 11:53:15 GMT
I notice that all the platforms at Gloucester Road now have a 'mind the gap' message every time a train appears in the platform. Why? The platforms are straight & there isn't a gap to mind! My thoughts exactly ...and indeed if you condition passengers to mind a gap when there is not one, they will expect other such warnings to refer to a gap no one can see... when there may actually be one !!! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2007 11:58:04 GMT
Perhaps they are referring to another gap, not at the station, but at a certain, now defunct Infraco?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2007 11:58:45 GMT
I notice that all the platforms at Gloucester Road now have a 'mind the gap' message every time a train appears in the platform. Why? The platforms are straight & there isn't a gap to mind! My thoughts exactly ...and indeed if you condition passengers to mind a gap when there is not one, they will expect other such warnings to refer to a gap no one can see... when there may actually be one !!! True. My trainee pointed out this useless announcement to me. I hadn't even noticed it - I seem to have learned to screen out most of the endless guff on the station announcements! |
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Post by Chris M on Jul 20, 2007 12:52:31 GMT
True. My trainee pointed out this useless announcement to me. I hadn't even noticed it - I seem to have learned to screen out most of the endless guff on the station announcements! And you wonder why the pax ask you questions about what is happening and where the train is going when this information is being given to them via the station PA? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2007 12:54:55 GMT
If it's not about Gaps, the anno's drone on about Oyster Pre Pay and not leaving things unattended...
Not many people take the slightest notice...
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Post by Dmitri on Jul 20, 2007 18:51:57 GMT
Invisible Oyster, invisible gap... what next? An invisible train  ? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2007 12:08:53 GMT
hahaha H&C Overload!! Theres a few places where the vicar should be heard thats Bank for sure, anywhere else??
But yes i have noticed more of these mind the gaps turning up, when you would either have to be blind or a small creature to slip down them.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2007 12:31:59 GMT
Yes, noticed on Thursday that there are now announcements on the Picc. I presume its either because of H&S gone mad or someone managed to trip and made a complaint. Either way its stupid.  |
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Post by c5 on Jul 21, 2007 16:14:09 GMT
Yes, noticed on Thursday that there are now announcements on the Picc. I presume its either because of H&C gone mad or someone managed to trip and made a complaint. Either way its stupid. The Piccadilly Line Supplemment states that PA'a about "Minding the Gap" must be made at every station (well, I think it's every station, I'll have a look). There was probably a PTI incident a few years ago. On the Circle's Mind The Gaps means Between Trains ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ,..... Every 8 1/ 2 minutes!!!!! |
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Post by gavelex on Jul 21, 2007 18:52:15 GMT
I presume its either because of H&S gone mad or someone managed to trip and made a complaint. Either way its stupid. Wouldent be the same person who complained about the YouTube cabrides, would it? ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2007 18:52:26 GMT
If we are talking about gaps between trains, was at Kings Cross today around 11.30... Intervals varied wildly for the Piccy; when i arrived at Platform, first one on the board was for Rayners Lane, due in four mins... next one after that was EIGHTEEN MINUTES!!! Platform was PACKED, except at the tailwall end, where I had 25ft of platform all to myself!
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Post by tubeprune on Jul 21, 2007 19:06:46 GMT
When the "Mind the Gap" announcements were spread across the system in the early 90s to almost any station with space for a mouse between train and platform, I suggested to Dennis Tunnicliffe, the then LU MD, that we would become the laughing stock as a result. He told me, "You think too much like a railwayman."
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Post by prjb on Jul 23, 2007 22:36:40 GMT
Little did he know it, but high praise indeed! |
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