Waiting for a train - who gets priority

[PhoebeGeebee]

Travelling back from a meeting yesterday and waiting for the train (which, for some reason, you can never get reserved seating for)

I stood on the platform for a good 15 minutes, didn't sit down as I knew the train would be busy and wanted to get a seat. Train came and I made a move toward the door, the same time as another woman. She gave me a look and said "excuse me, but I've been waiting for half an hour for this train".

I'm not a fan of confrontation so I let her on. However, whilst she had been waiting longer, she'd been sitting in the waiting room on a nice comfy seat. I had been standing in the heat on the platform.

So who should get first dibs on the seat? The one who's been waiting longest, or the one who's put themselves out more?

[Unescorted]

Who ever has the sharpest elbows

[HowLongTillTippingPoint]

The one who's waited the longest. Obviously.

[Palomb]

Whoever gets to the door first IMO.

[ExtraHotLatteToGo]

The one who got to the door of the train first.

[HowLongTillTippingPoint]

How do you know she was sat on that chair comfortably? Maybe she needs to sit so got there extra early to make sure she got a seat in the waiting area and then also needs a seat on the train?

[YouCantBeSadHoldingACupcake]

Whoever gets to the door first

[ChocChocPorridge]

Whoever gets to the door first in your case..

You were closer, having been waiting in discomfort whilst she's waited longer, but in the cool - so a draw.

[WorraLiberty]

There doesn't seem to be a queuing system for trains here.

I suppose because you just get on through whichever door is nearest.

So I suppose it's whoever gets to the seat first.

[Whataboutwhathuh]

It wouldn't even occur to me to let anyone on in front of me. You form a queue and you get on. If you aren't waiting on the platform to get on you aren't waiting to me.

[DamsonGinIsMyThing]

When it comes to getting on a train there are no rules.

[WeAllHaveWings]

There aren't queues for trains, its basically whoever is lucky enough to be nearest the door when it stops.

[60sname]

The one who's nearest the doors when they open! Trains (usually) arrive at a set time - it's your look-out if you want to arrive massively early for them

[MyNewBearTotoro]

As far as I'm concerned it doesn't matter how long someone had been waiting of where on the platform/ in the station they were waiting. Whoever gets to the door first can go through it first.

[ToTheCrystalDome]

Trains? What are they?! (Southern Rail commuter here!)

[sallysparrow157]

Trains are timetabled, you know when they're going to come so if you've been waiting for hours for a train it's bad planning on your part, you could have gone for a cuppa or gone shopping or something. It's not like waiting for a taxi or something which could turn up at any time. Waiting for a train whoever is closest to the door gets on first

[WeAllHaveWings]

......although it would be polite to make way for the elderly, infirm, babes in arms etc.

[Cheby]

If neither had a greater need for a seat (elderly, pregnant, disabled etc) then its first come first served. I've done a lot of train travel and most people use a take no prisoners approach.

[venusinscorpio]

You don't get to sit in the waiting room and then stroll out and go to any door and push in front of the queue on the platform.

[NotYoda]

If I knew full well that someone had been waiting longer than me, I'd let them go first. But they'd have to make themselves visible. Otherwise I will get my elbows out

However, I'd let disabled or infirm people, or those with small children ahead of me.

[HowLongTillTippingPoint]

Oh I agree, if she was still sat in the waiting area you wouldn't wait for her to walk over and get on the train before you. However, if you're both at the same door and you know she's been waiting longer than you then surely you'd let her on first? If you didn't know though then really it's just whoever steps forward first.

[venusinscorpio]

Obviously if someone was disabled etc I would hope most people would let them on first. But not just because they'd been waiting in the waiting room.

[NotYoda]

Yes, I agree you don't get to wait in the waiting room then go first.

[LordRothermereBlackshirtCunt]

So she expected everyone to clock that she was in the waiting room and for any queue on the platform to part for her like the Red bloody Sea? What a loon!

[venusinscorpio]

The queue forms around the door on the platform, not in the waiting room, cafe, front of station etc.

[venusinscorpio]

It doesn't sound like she gets trains very often.