To think that you join the back of the queue in this situation?

[ClaudiaWankleman]

London tube. Station is a very big ‘island’ type platform, so one large platform with trains arriving both sides. There are doors which indicate where you should stand, so people queue. Queues can be very long, sometimes 10m long.

Every 4 trains or so, there will be one that terminates at the next station. People have to change at my stop to travel further.

When these trains come in they are pretty empty and approximately 1/3 of the people on them change.
Some of them go to the back of the queue and some of them mill about not queuing and try and get on the next train. This drives me crazy as the platforms are very busy (made somewhat worse by the queues paradoxically!) and I think it’s just quite rude to get off the train and try and push in front of 20 or more people.

AIBU to tell these people to jog on to the back of the queue? I did yesterday when someone backed into me and stood on my foot and was tutted at.

My thoughts are that you can see where the train terminates and you shouldn’t get on one until it goes to your destination - this is what I always do on this line (appreciate it might be different if you’re going somewhere with multiple branches though). If you do get off, you should respect the queue.

I agree that it is the rules that cause the stress the majority of the time.

I can’t stand for very long, I need a priority seat and have a badge you won’t see if you’re behind me. Either I push through the queue or I get shoved and shoved until I can’t stand.

Is Canary Wharf a strange anomaly in the general London tube system?

Generally tube= no rules, no queueing, go for it.

Clearly anyone used to the rest of the tube turning up at Canary Wharf would find the whole thing confusing as usually it's everyone for themselves.

Oh yeah and by queue I meant crowd of people. If you think there’s an actual queue on the tube well... good luck with that.

@annamagnani

Yes but this isn’t really about people who don’t get the jubilee line often - this is peak time people commuting home via Canning Town/ West Ham/ Stratford who do this multiple times a week.

There are too many of them to be one offs (plus they aren’t tourists judging by what they’re wearing).

I do feel vindicated in it angering me.

I think queuing etiquette applies generally on the Jubilee line at the stations where there are doors on the platform (Waterloo, Southwark, London Bridge etc) especially at rush hour. I agree though with OP, back of the queue!

@Squigglekat
I don’t really understand what that has to do with the price of fish. Presumably if you need a priority seat you wait the extra minute when you get on and then only have to ask for the seat once? It would be silly to have to push through the carriage potentially 4 times instead of 1 or 2 times.

Again, if you refuse to believe that people queue then RTFT.

You say you have no malice in your thread but the very nature of your post is to put down/belittle others that apparently according to you cannot have what you call a nice lifestyle on the same finances that you have.

You are effectively stating ‘I can do this, that and the other on X amount so why are other people saying they cant?’ which is understandably interpreted as you boasting.

Can you not see or understand that most young families will have rent and a mortgage and that you are a lucky exception.

Wrong bloody thread! Sorry

No-one in London respects Underground platform queues - it's each person for themselves.

Even the uninitiated can see the clear queues in that video. What do the queue pushers think all those people are doing, stood in their orderly lines?

Yes of course they should queue but queuing is a largely British etiquette, if you look at the people who are doing this many won't be British.

That along with the selfish attitudes nowadays where no one would disadvantage themselves to do 'the right or decent thing'.

Just position yourself better or ask station staff to help manage the queues.

The Underground has become much, much busier and more unbearable to use than it ever used to be. I cannot believe how people squeeze themselves onto tube train where there really isn't the space for them. And even on the way home, no-one seems capable of waiting for the next train, even if it's only a minute behind.

I have an obsession about queues. If anyone jumps a queue I’m in, a red mist descends, and I have to confront the person who does it. If I travel abroad I’m in constant stress mode if I have to queue for anything, because I don’t think it’s a ‘thing’ anywhere else but the U.K. so you have sympathies OP - it would drive me crazy.

nobody queues at the tubes Think again. Are you part of the problem?

doubt it, because I dont go into London that much, but I would only queue if others were. If its packed and looks like a free-for-all to get a space, then you have to just do what you need to do.

but I would only queue if others were.

And everyone does at Canary Wharf. Which is the point.

ok, well then one occasion someone didnt queue. Not really a big deal

Canary Wharf is the only station queuing rules apply, YANBU.

I'm pretty sure North Greenwich is the same. The one right on the doorstep of the 02 Arena, I think?

Gosh, I wasn't aware of any queuing rules for the Underground.

Totally disagree, in my book they should go to the front of the queue instead. Passengers who have to get off planes at intermediate stops are always allowed back on board before new passengers.