Doors open while train moving incident (1/9/18)

When I read the topic title and contents, I presumed it was a small opening of the door. To see a picture of the door completely open is quite surprising to me. I am glad no one was hurt.

Assuming that everyone onboard is sensible enough to stay away from the doors, it is likely going to be safer to remain on the train until it arrives at the next station - the track is a dangerous place.

I think the big question will relate to how the train was able to depart Finchley Road with doors open because under normal circumstances a train cannot take power with open doors. We will have to wait and see.

You will have a difficult life if you aspire to understand the behaviour of passengers . . .

...for no reason.

"There's a door open; better keep well away from it".

Common sense is alive and well, after all.

Probably wouldn't be the best idea in the world, because, if the carriage is not packed, there is virtually no danger of anyone falling out.

On the other hand, in decades of regular underground use, I can't ever remember being thrown against a door, so if there was a compelling reason to alert the driver, and bearing in mind that there are always posts to hold on to near the doors, I wouldn't be concerned about doing so.

Slam door stock frequently travelled with doors open.

Back in the late seventies/early eighties, I commuted from a station with a curved platform. I'd travel at the front of the train because it was generally less crowded. The station exit was about two carriages away from the other end.

I would say that 50% of the time when I alighted from a twelve or thirteen carriage train at night, I'd need to kick at least one door closed as the train departed. Most of these were on the 'second catch', so would probably not have allowed egress if anyone had leant on them, but occasionally the doors were fully open.

Without stationing multiple porters (yes, they were thing back then), it would have been impossible to dispatch trains in a timely manner and ensure that all doors were correctly closed.

Must have been incredibly noisy. Worse still if it had reached a tunnel.

My instinct would be to pull a handle, even if it meant very cautiously hanging on to bars etc to get to it - because I would worry that other doors could be open in different cars and passengers may have fallen out - or be at risk of falling out - even if they weren't in the carriage that I was in. More likely, an inquisitive but idiotic person sticking their head out the door and getting it hit by a passing object

I think he meant that he'd like to have seen 'that' - i.e. the situation where the doors opened in a lightly loaded carriage, and as a matter of actual fact, no one was injured.

I think it would be quite spooky. Not exactly scary, but something that would make you feel anxious and uneasy - at least for a moment or two.

It's one way to reduce trap & drag incidents, I suppose...

Exactly that
I'd also love to be evacuated through a tunnel.

Even without that I personally would be very cautious about pulling an alarm in the circumstances presented within the video. Passengers are fairly safe in their seats - all it takes is a lurch over pointwork to lose your footing or grip and you're out the door. If it was a packed train in rush hour (And, umm, it isn't) then without a doubt an alarm would have been pulled the moment the train moved.

Unless the doors were open on both sides, surely there would be alarms on the side of the car with the closed doors!