to be really angry with this train station attendant's behaviour!

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I was running a bit late for my train to college this morning, fair enough that is my own fault but I managed to arrive at the platform 2 minutes before the train was due to leave. Train was still at the platform, waiting.

Brilliant, I thought, Ive still got time to get on the train, only when I approached the door the train station attendant guy (the ones with the fluro orange jackets) shouted at me that it was too late and I couldn't get on! There was another guy on the platform who he also wouldn't let on and yet the conductor was not even on the train himself! We're both standing there on the platform, tickets in hand, telling him that we really need to get on the train and the whole time he just shouted at us saying 'its too late' and 'get back from the train' over & over.

Consequently, because of this guy being ridiculous, I missed my train to college, the next one being an hour later. In my defence I was exhausted and had only had 2hrs sleep the night before but I was so upset I went outside the station and burst into tears.

Was there any reason for him to shout at me? AIBU to think he was being ridiculous to not allow me the 10 seconds it would have taken for me to get on the train, especially since the actual conductor for the train was not even on it at the time!!!!

Well that was a 'if I took the longest I could possibly take' estimate. What you don't seem to be taking into consideration is that more than one person can enter the train at once, they dont have to stand in a line and take 30 seconds each so your comparison is a bit stupid.

Living in London I'm guessing you rarely have to wait an hour for a train, and if you did you could walk to another station or get a bus. Some of us don't have that luxury. Its a 4 hr, 65 mile round trip for me to get to college every day and that is the only one that does my course so an hour delay is a huge amount of time to me.

Andrew err I think it is a switch in the guard's van. At our station, they lock the doors, from the guard's van, whilst another train arrives at the platform to be coupled up to the train already there, and then the doors are unlocked by flicking a switch in the guard's van to allow people who have been patiently waiting to get on. I don't think the guard has to walk along the platform at all. He can do all the locks on all the door along the length of the whole train. It takes no time at all.

Yep, I'm pretty sure its just a button that gets pressed. The train in question was only 2 carriages long anyway!