To want signs on trains to show how to get your pram off safely?

[GreenSeededGrape]

The amount of people I see wheeling their pram forward off the train and then wondering how to actually get the thing off the carriage.

Just saw another person do it and they didn't even tilt the pram back on the wheels, they tilted it forwards

It (amongst other things) makes me sad that there isn't a test to be taken before having children.

There are sooo many bad pram drivers! I use an electric wheelchair and had to do a proficiency test before they agreed to issue me with one. Maybe it's something else to cover off in ante natal classes?!

Maybe not before dc but certainly before your pram is issued you should have to know how to drive it

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People shouldn't need diagrams to coach them through everything they encounter throughout the day. You'll always get the pure idiots who shove the buggy out into the road to gauge whether it's safe for them to step out, but most people with half a brain cell manage to work things out unaided.

These are professional looking people getting off at Kew Gardens and Richmond. So presumably have 'half a brain cell' but still struggle.

Depends on the buggy surely. I find it easier to face forward and tilt ours back and just bump the back wheels down. Just like i do when i bump forward down the stairs.

I could never get off at Kew Bridge as the drop is so massive. I used to go to Brentford and walk back.

I see this on buses aswell. Surely it's common sense. I agree we shouldn't need signs for everything. Again common sense.

I saw someone jump on a train and almost leave their dog behind today! The little dog was scared of the gap and wouldn't step over it. The doors were just about to close and the man leapt out and scooped it up, poor thing!

I tried to get the buggy off forwards once and nearly upended it on to the train platform. In my defence I was very, very sleep deprived and barely functioning. I generally preferred a long for getting around.

A better point rather than having a pop at mothers would be to wonder why it is beyond the wit of man/woman to build train platforms that match the height of the trains using them....

Are they still there, forever trapped between the train and the platform? I suspect not and they did in fact manage to get the pram off the train somehow and are not in need of a diagram.

Luckily four years of living in London have taught me the importance of the backwards dismount and wheel tilt.

That should say a sling (not a long - thanks autocorrect).

Would be much easier if idiots didn’t stand so close to the door you can’t get through, or blocked the doors on the train so you can’t turn,

Even better would be if people did the nice thing and help!

Similar to sirzy. The amount of people that seems baffled by me trying to get the pushchair off backwards and then stand in my way is ridiculous.

I’ve seen plenty of posters around telling you to get off backwards. If it’s busy though you often don’t have the space to turn the pram round if you’re facing the wrong way but usually people help lift it off then.

Also, standing on the platform and refusing to love back so it's impossible for me and pushchair to get off the train is fun too.

move ffs

I find it more concerning that there are people who watch someone struggle on/off a train with a pram/buggy and not assist.

Maybe the buggy/pram user could do with a dose of common sense but a dose of common decency all round would work just as well.

That's true, Indaro

On a related note I had to get off at Lewisham a few weeks ago and the gap was too far for me to manage - it was about 2 feet wide but also really high, about a 3 foot jump.

I had to get someone to help me Proper scared I was - seriously considered staying on til Dartford and then coming back

Are you sure it hadn't just stopped at a signal, Laurie?!

When i was massively pregnant i used to get on off the train on my knees as it was often so high from the platform (again Kew Bridge is the worst culprit i've seen). When getting off id crouch down and crawl off backwards.