Tube Etiquette: Who goes on first?

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Alright picture this. It’s busy on the London underground. You’re waiting for the tube. You didn’t manage to get on the previous tube. So you stand where the doors will stop. The tube stops, so you move directly to the side to let passengers off the tube before you can get on.

Someone sees you waiting. It’s obvious what you are doing. But instead, they decide to jump straight to the front of the queue and push past you to get on the tube.

AIBU to think it’s pretty obvious that the people waiting to the side of the tube doors get to go on first?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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