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)

Absolutely this, As has been proved by a post on this thread

At my local station, there's an announcement telling people to put the brakes on prams and wheelchairs on the platform.

Speaking of buggies, I was on a railway station platform once when there was a woman with a small child in a buggy a little way away. She had all her shopping in plastic carrier bags hanging off the handles. She thought her train was coming in so she took the child out of the buggy and the weight of the shopping made it fall over backwards.

It wasn't her train, so she picked up the buggy and put the child back in.

Few minutes later, another train, so she takes the child out and the buggy falls over again. She looked around and said 'No-one going to help me?'

Well, no. You knew that would happen when you took the child out.

....you will have everyone in the station pissed off at you!

You should never arouse the ire of a London commuter - as those Extinction Rebellion twats discovered when they stopped a train at Canning Town.

In the days of the old slam door trains, if you stood too near the edge you risked being seriously clobbered if someone on the train opened a door before the train had stopped.

I'd rather that than the idiot actually being injured because that delays us even more!

You have to be very careful with buggies on railway platforms - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/547c8fab40f0b60244000153/R172014_140814_Southend_Whyteleafe.pdf

I once stood on a platform talking to a young medic, she stood right at the back well away from the yellow lines. She said since she had done a stint in psychiatry and was shocked by how many people have an impulse to push others off the platform this was always going to be her position!

I bear this in mind every time I wait for a train.