To ask, if you don’t stand behind the yellow line, why?

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The poor station attendant at my busy connecting station this morning must have asked passengers in at least 8 different ways to stay behind the yellow line for their own safety, resorting to increasingly graphic pleas like “stand behind the line if you don’t want to get hit by a train”.

Yet I can still see at least 10 people right at the platform edge. What kind of arsehole places train drivers in a position where they are at risk of hitting someone? And fellow passengers and staff witnessing this?

Even if you think you have conducted some sort of bullshit personal risk assessment and know better than the staff, surely it’s just plain courtesy to do as you are asked?

(See also people who ignore cabin crew safety instructions on aircraft)

Because people are fucking stupid.

YNBU - I stand at least a metre back from the line. Those express trains that whoosh through without stopping are terrifying. I haven't been at one of those stations for a while but I'm sure there were signs saying there was a danger of getting sucked off the platform when those went through. Peterborough, maybe.

And here's the answer to.so many mn questions.

personally, it's because people are so wrapped up in their own world/stressed about traveling. I expected the scenario to be about the yellow lines at airport check in

We don't live in a nanny state. I can stand wherever I want.

I stand as far from the edge as I possibly can and always have. I do not fancy slipping or being pushed onto the tracks.

You can't teach stupid.

But surely basic common sense and consideration for others should prevail? Especially when doing what you want could cause physical harm and/or mental distress...

Stop acting like a child and the authorities won't have to treat you like one

Ooh aren’t you so big and clever and cool
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because they need to see someone actually severely injured to realise the rules are there for a reason.

(*Then if it's them or their kid, they will sue because it was dangerous.)

Or the risk of heavy fine, that would work too

It ought to be part of human natural selection but unfortunately h & s doesn’t allow it.

Do you also stand in the middle of the road or on the airport runway then?

Saw a news story quite a few years ago about someone who randomly pushed a stranger off the playform of a tube station as a train was coming in. In stations now I stand by the wall and well away from the edge in train stations.

I know of two stations where in places the platform is too narrow to stand behind the yellow line. At one, it's because the space behind the line is taken up with the stairs down from the footbridge and seats, at the other it's because there are brick pillars. At the second one, the announcer was once begging people to move along to where it was wider, to the point they said they wouldn't bring the train in until people had moved.

They want to be sucked off?

Because they're so desperate to get on first and get a seat.

that must be it…

maybe people do it in the hopes of a Darwin Award?

😅🤣😅 they live in hope

This!

Of course you can't. Wherever you live there will be rules about where you can stand to prevent you causing great cost and nuisance by getting yourself injured or killed.

I wouldn't have started a thread but this one has prompted me to express my absolute horror at the many parents who arrived on the platform of my local station pushing babies in buggies. They (adults) usually seem pre-occupied by their phone screens and stand close to the yellow line but turn those buggies towards the platform edge and with one hand push the buggies back and forth. It's very dangerous and I've been very tempted to say something but held back as don't want to be told to mind my own business.

Well if like a pp said the train won’t be allowed into the station because people like you are too stupid to follow basic rules the you will have everyone in the station pissed off at you!

This. And I have seen trains held up outside of stations before because of this lemming/selfish behaviour. They are making everyone else late and putting other people at risk.

But it’s people like you that will eventually cause that to happen 🙄