Coupling trains: which is safest?

[Deepgreen]

It’s perfectly safe and it’s operationally easier that way.

Otherwise the guard would have to let everyone off, stop anyone from getting on. Close the doors. Allow the shunt, then let everyone on.

In that case (and I agree - it is perfectly safe), why are we exhorted to remain seated (assuming we are seated in the first place!)? This is also the case on Southern at, for example, Redhill.

 

[ComUtoR]

why are we exhorted to remain seated (assuming we are seated in the first place!)?

The litigious nature of people.

 

[Iskra]

It’s just a risk management strategy.

 

[TurbostarFan]

I would think the problem is not so much that coupling with passengers on and standing is actually unsafe - it's that the announcement that they should 'remain seated' during the coupling process (when this is not possible) might lead the standing passengers to *think* it is unsafe for them.

I fully agree. Could this lead to someone pulling the emergency alarm or door release?