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Originally Posted by colchesterken
Many years back I was spotting at Euston when I saw an ECS pull out with the last door in the train open
I walked down the ramp and used the trackside phone to report it
the signaler was gratefull ....I dont know what happened!
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This is a Rulebook designated safety issue, so the signaller would have been obliged to inform the driver, either;
* Over cab radio if the train had one
* Stopping the train on a danger signal so that the driver would have to get down & use the SPT.
Either the guard would have gone back & secured the door, or if it was ECS there may have been no guard so driver may have had to do it.
Either way, you did EXACTLY the right thing. (A purist might argue that you shouldn't have gone down the ramp without PPE, but in the terminus platform area trains are limited to 15 mph - and you were dealing with a much more important issue since if a door hit someone on a station the outcome would have been horrible). Good call
