Tube Etiquette: Who goes on first?

This is why I love travelling on the Jubilee line. Canary Wharf station is an example of tube queuing etiquette you rarely see elsewhere.

Every man for himself
Eyes straight ahead
There's no one else there
Just get on

Doesn't sit right with me but it's what everyone else does

Tube etiquette is:

Let people off the train first
Stand on the right on escalators
Never under any circumstances look anyone in the eye

Nothing about queueing it's everyone for themselves

There's no etiquette about who gets on first, because there isn't a queue. Who knows who arrived at the platform first?!

You let people off first (that's both etiquette and basic common sense).

You let anyone who clearly needs to be let on first get on (elderly, people with disabilities or young children, pregnant etc). Beyond that it's every man for himself.

The only etiquette is letting people off first. Those who get on while I'm still getting off (and I'm not a dawdler about getting off) get a judicious shoulder barge.

The only etiquette is:
-getting on or off as quickly as possible so as not to delay things. Trains are so close together it doesn’t matter.
-don’t block the door area if you get on first, move down. Let others on first if you want a door spot
-give disabled people space/ seats

Otherwise, anything goes

I am definitely a glass slumper. It is nearly as good as getting a seat. I am very accepting of other people’s tube behaviour though and wouldn’t judge OP’s queue barger.

Some people are dicks, that’s really all there is to it.

It's a trick question. The real unreasonable ones were the other passengers not moving down and causing congestion in the door area in the first place so they can slump against the glass divider at the end of the seats or against the door when it shuts instead of getting out of the way and standing properly for a few minutes.

At rush hour there is no tube etiquette.

Tube etiquette?
There is no such thing.
I would do what you do, it's polite and sensible. Expecting anyone else to do the same is bonkers.

The London Tube rule seems to be shove and/or be shoved but I never got on with it. Funnily enough, I agree with you OP that both sense and courtesy suggest it might be a plan to let disembarking passengers off and not barge through em like a pissed-up Ghostbuster. Sense also suggests someone standing back when the doors open and people get off is waiting for something very like that to happen, as opposed to just a TfL hobbyist enjoying the sexist jostling and whiffy breezes. Agreed it’s frequently those terribly important men in suits who haven’t a second to spare, nor enough sense or courtesy to go around.

A very well-dressed city boy behind me once decided to assist me onto the tube by bodily propelling me into a flow of egressing commuters, perhaps he got confused and thought it was the queue for tuck. Let’s hope the massive ridder he got when I loudly told him to get his sweaty fucking mitts off my back clarified my personal view on transport etiquette for him a bit 🤪

This. You don't queue to get on.

No rules on the underground except walk on the left/ stand on the right and let the passengers off first. After that it’s everyone for themselves. I hate the stupid jubilee platforms where people try and queue

I think you’ve done well to have only one person push in front of you on the tube. Tube etiquette, from what I have observed, is basically whoever can push through goes first.

There is always going to be someone who does this. It's common sense to let people off the train before getting on,but a hell of a lot of people obviously don't understand this.

Absolutely 'queue rules' i.e. person that's been waiting the longest goes on first but as with all things, you get the odd person who through genuine obliviousness or sheer nerve will ignore the (implicitly formed and seething) queue and barge their way straight to the front, you just have to inwardly tut and get on with it I'm afraid. I once ever saw someone on a really packed tube who was forced to get off even though it wasn't their stop to let the people behind them in the packed carriage off, as any fool knows the person that's done this gets back on first before people waiting on the platform but to our assembled horror we saw a guy with a huge backpack and earphones in waltz past sideswiping her and nearly knocking her off her feet (luckily it was so overcrowded she pretty much just pinballed straight back up off the crowd standing next to her). The rudeness! The horror!

Although tbf we've all been 'that' person even if we don't care to admit it, I still get cold shivers thinking about the time I accidentally waltzed past the mother of all queues waiting for the one working public water fountain in a park on a hot day, people were standing politely well back while the head of the queue filled their bottle so I strolled right past them with my head in the clouds looking at the pretty flowers etc only to notice I was being glared at by about 50 people 😦just not lest ye be judged and all that!

Whoever goes on first goes on first🤷‍♀️

Wheelchair crutches etc always go first

how is people going to and from work wrong?

there's no etiquette because the majority of people are busy and have more important things to worry about eg work.
think for yourself and no one else otherwise you end up stood at the closing doors, when you probably could have fit in the first one,

Tube etiquette is everybody stands to the side to let people off. There's no etiquette about who gets on first.

I have a crutch.

Tends to stop most people.

There is no etiquette on the tube, it’s every man for himself.

Every man/woman/whatever you identify as for themselves. Surely only etiquette is on the escalators 🤣

It would be polite for them to wait but it’s London in rush hour… the whole London rush hour thing is wrong but I think your expectations are unreasonable!