work-traveller
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Basic question is can one be fined, prosecuted etc for opening a carriage door when the train is stationary at a platform?
Scenario - you're on a Cross Country voyager that's arrived at Birmingham New Street. You're keen to make a connection, so have to be sharpish off the train. The train stops and the doors stay locked for approximately 1 minute. Lots of passengers on the train and platform start looking distinctly miffed. Then you hear a PA announcement from the platform to the effect that the doors will be opened shortly once a police incident has been dealt with. For information I'd spotted police waiting on the platform at what would have been the other end of the train by the time it stopped. So, after about 2 minutes, would I have been liable for fine, prosecution etc for pulling the emergency door release handle and getting off the train?
Ultimately I waited, the doors were opened after about 3 minutes, I did a Usain Bolt to my connecting train and missed it by seconds.
Scenario - you're on a Cross Country voyager that's arrived at Birmingham New Street. You're keen to make a connection, so have to be sharpish off the train. The train stops and the doors stay locked for approximately 1 minute. Lots of passengers on the train and platform start looking distinctly miffed. Then you hear a PA announcement from the platform to the effect that the doors will be opened shortly once a police incident has been dealt with. For information I'd spotted police waiting on the platform at what would have been the other end of the train by the time it stopped. So, after about 2 minutes, would I have been liable for fine, prosecution etc for pulling the emergency door release handle and getting off the train?
Ultimately I waited, the doors were opened after about 3 minutes, I did a Usain Bolt to my connecting train and missed it by seconds.