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Haven't we all been engrossed in our phone/newspaper or whatever and suddenly realised it was our stop and leapt out quick, hopefully without knocking the conductor flying!
Quite.
A simple "sorry, are you OK?" from the errant passenger should have done there. I guess if he wasn't OK it would have needed to be reported, of course, as there are procedures around such things, but that isn't even close to being an assault in the deliberate sense any more than if you accidentally walk into someone in the street.
Neil
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I meant the passenger. Banging on the side of a moving train is not safe.
True.
London bus operators are financially penalised by TfL if a bus runs more than 2 minutes early, or more than 5 minutes late. As a result these are the thresholds at which controllers start bollocking drivers, and drivers have been heard saying to passengers absolute rubbish like "I'm entitled to be up to two minutes early" :roll:
If you hear that, report it. But I wouldn't expect that from railway staff, who tend to be more professional than bus drivers, particularly some London bus drivers who have been around for a while, who still see their responsibility as just driving the bus, as the conductor used to deal with things like passenger service and punctuality.
Early running ("ragging it around so you get a longer break at the end", for want of a better phrase) is endemic in bus operations, and it's taken GPS tracking to make it a lot less common. There was a particular slackly-timed[1] cross-town evening route in Milton Keynes that often used to leave the centre 10-15 minutes early. Each time I saw it, I reported it, but it only stopped when GPS tracking came in - and it stopped that day and never restarted.
There was also, on another route, a lot of cutting-out of estates and going up the main road, which again was reported every time I saw it, but again it took GPS (and the route being changed to make the diversions make less sense) to stop it.
I have never heard of a member of railway staff cutting a stop out because they couldn't be bothered stopping there. The two industries have a totally different level of professionalism.
Which is why it surprises me any member of rail staff considers early running acceptable!
[1] For good reason, namely to ensure a consistent hourly departure time throughout the hours of operation in this case. But to end up that early he was clearly leaving the start point early as well so he could get home early rather than sitting at the start for 10 minutes first for his timetabled layover/break.
Neil
And may make guards more reluctant to use a passenger door to do their station duties, leading to the "guards are never seen in passenger areas" comments 
