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It's been a while...lockdown...so I'm recalling memories from ~ 1 year ago, the last time I used the tube (I live in London), but if I remember right, each gate
by alias_neo 5y ago
It's been a while...lockdown...so I'm recalling memories from ~ 1 year ago, the last time I used the tube (I live in London), but if I remember right, each gate has a red emergency stop button you can hit to exit in an emergency.
- tialaramex 5y agoEr. No? Gate lines in the UK are manned, if there isn't someone available to supervise the gate line, the gates are left open. There is no "red emergency stop button" on the gates. Perhaps if the maintenance controls are open there's a red button inside somewhere, but that's not what it's for. Most likely you're remembering other emergency stop buttons you saw, e.g. on escalators or in lifts?
- alias_neo 5y agoI must be remembering the escalator ones, that makes more sense.
- Animats 5y agoThere are red emergency open buttons for the gateline operator. Here is where they are, in the London Underground training video for gateline operators.[1] [1] https://youtu.be/lRdkI09KCpk?t=220 https://youtu.be/lRdkI09KCpk?t=220
- tialaramex 5y agoTrue, but those aren't controls on the gate. I guess I should have mentioned them in my list of other places the grand-parent might have seen red emergency stop buttons.