Hi all,
I'm a long time lurker but an extraordinary event has made me start posting here...
Anyway, I commute from East Croydon to Moorgate via Southern to London Bridge then on the Northern Line every day. This morning during the peak I got a North bound Northern Line tube train from London Bridge. I was the last passenger to get on into the last carriage and stood just inside the door.
As the train moved away it lurched a bit and I grabbed hold of the rubber seal between the two closed doors. To my amazement the doors gave way and I and I was able to push them open 1 or 2 inches. I felt as if they would have opened all the way. Thankfully I pushed them closed again (and I think the guy standing next to me might have assisted - it happened very quickly indeed).
I have reported it to TFL and gave them the carriage no. but just wondered how serious this was and how often it happens?
They told me the train should automatically apply the brakes if it senses a door is open but that didn't happen. The driver was probably in the tunnel by the time it happened so they probably wouldn't have noticed it.
I might call TFL again next week but is it worth escalating it? Shouldn't there be some sort of interlocking system, or does it only work above a certain speed?
I do remember doors flying opening a couple of times when I was a school kid travelling along the Sussex Coast on the old slam-door trains. I thought things were better these days :roll:!
I'm a long time lurker but an extraordinary event has made me start posting here...
Anyway, I commute from East Croydon to Moorgate via Southern to London Bridge then on the Northern Line every day. This morning during the peak I got a North bound Northern Line tube train from London Bridge. I was the last passenger to get on into the last carriage and stood just inside the door.
As the train moved away it lurched a bit and I grabbed hold of the rubber seal between the two closed doors. To my amazement the doors gave way and I and I was able to push them open 1 or 2 inches. I felt as if they would have opened all the way. Thankfully I pushed them closed again (and I think the guy standing next to me might have assisted - it happened very quickly indeed).
I have reported it to TFL and gave them the carriage no. but just wondered how serious this was and how often it happens?
They told me the train should automatically apply the brakes if it senses a door is open but that didn't happen. The driver was probably in the tunnel by the time it happened so they probably wouldn't have noticed it.
I might call TFL again next week but is it worth escalating it? Shouldn't there be some sort of interlocking system, or does it only work above a certain speed?
I do remember doors flying opening a couple of times when I was a school kid travelling along the Sussex Coast on the old slam-door trains. I thought things were better these days :roll:!