these are actually to prevent fires spreading like in the tragic kings cross fire. The fire travelled through the tunnel and soon as it got to the platform it was like a vacuum, the fire immediately went up the escalators engulfing everything and everyone in it's way
The only stations with these doors are the central jubilee line stations. They were built as " bomb proof" doors as these are the stations nearest to the important buildings
is not to stop people from being pushed onto the rails, if that was the problem they'd have built some metal barriers not expensive glass walls, I reckon that the top comment is the most appropriate
They are good but wene I was watching a London underground TV Episode thy said if the driver dident stop at the doors correctly then the doors wouldn't open ! :).
These station is like some stations on an old lines in the center of Saint-Petersburg. It's called "horizontal lift" in Russia. That's good for passenger's security, but hitching additional vagons in case of passenger flow increasing is impossible.
The platform edge doors were put in to mitigate against fire risk as they prevent the piston effect where flames were fanned by passing trains. This was all done in the wake of the Fennel report into the King's Cross fire in 1987
@se11001 everyone has this "shit" and idiots everywhere many are jsut unheard off and these "idiots" you call maybe had life problems and they think suicide is the best solution to that problem. By calling them idiots it's like your saying they commited suicide jsut for the "fun/hell" of itl
Maybe you're right. But I think there are more efficient ways to prevent people from killing thereselves than building up walls. Maybe somebody should speak to them or something like that... I'm sure these people would find another way to kill themselves. I'm just not a friend of the "nothing can happen"- society. I have the fear that if these measures get even more, more people will walk through the world and don't think about any dangers. But people will sue the company if it isn't
The majority of the tube tracks at station platforms in central London are raised and have space underneath them. The spaces beneath tehm are nicknamed the Suicide Pits. If you were to fall down onto the tracks and a trainw as coming you would drop into the pit and wait for teh train to pass. The stations with the mechanical doors seen here do not have these pits beneath their tracks, that's why I always assumed the doors where there.
One of their functions is for Suicide prevention, but their original function was actually ventilation believe it or not, they were cheaper to install instead of large ventilation systems for track level
i dont know why but i always loved the noise the tubes made when powering on its obviously the electric motor kicking in at 0:47 till the end of the video. I always remember this about the tube when i visited london over 13 years ago
Attack on London was a inside job to justify war on terror, on the day of London attack 10,000 CCTV cameras were switched off. click justice party UK.
@camdidafart The plan was to stop jumpers,the drivers are traumatised by the suicides,i have been on trains many times when it has had to be held up in order to remove a body from the tracks(they are honest enough to tell us the truth).I have also known people who have died that way too.
The barriers are not present on every line,only the Jubilee,so if anyone gets the urge they can go to any number of under/overground stations or most stretches of track have the outdated 3rd electrified rail.
@TZEITEL10 you have to regulate the air flow underground to ensure the QUALITY of the air is safely breathable, air condition in that sense rather than controlling temperature
Suiide Prevention ? ? How about preventing a person who is a few cocconut short of a palm tree from shoving someone in front of an onconning train. or having something thrown on the track.
The doors were built because it would save millions of pounds by not having to put air wind excluders in the tunnels. The doors are there for better air quality thats why they built them.
@fantasticministry2 Your a bit right.. Remember the kings cross fire. It was said that the trains cause the fire to go even more deeper into the station. ITS THE WIND = =
@Joshie7797 IM NOT INTO TRAINS OR METROS MATE THIS VID WAS RECOMMENDED FOR ME FOR SOME REASON! I HAVE BEEN TO MANORS STATION MANY TIMES THO! DO YOU KNOW WERE THE TUNNEL GOES TO AFTER MANORS? COZ THE TRAIN STOP THERE AND GOES BACK ON ITSELF BUT THE TUNNEL CONTINUES?
This is becoming more common all over the world. It is standard on automated systems without operators. Not only suicides, but accidents and assaults.
They're actually there to allow trains to accelerate faster out of stations. In tests they made with that acceleration without the platform edge doors most of the dummies ended up in the track or on the platform floor, so the edge doors were installed to allow for faster acceleration.
Problem With These Is That The Train Has To Stop With Exact Presion, Couple Of Weeks Ago When Traveling -Shopping With a Friend- With a Freind, We Couldn't Get On Because The Car Doors And Station Doors Weren't Allined Properly.
FYI they were designed to reduce the movement of air caused by emergency ventilation fans which activate in event of a fire.
(See the Kings Cross Fire and you will see what I mean)
Reducing suicides was also in the back of the designers' minds , but that isn't the real purpose of these platform screen doors.
(Besides if you want to jump in front of a tube train, you CAN jump in front of a tube train, you just have to go to Clapham Common like the rest of the lunatics)
@mwarrior17 we do, its called NYC subway, or any other major city. This line doesn't go all across the UK just London. It does have alot of stops though
@mwarrior17 Then why ask If American doesn't do the same then? Why ask that question? I gave you an answer, then you gave an answer, don't ask a question if you're going to answer it yourself, silly person.
@NoctisEreptor Stop speaking like your on crack. I'm making fun of you for giving a stupid answer. Of course I care. Why wouldn't I? That's why I said why didn't America build one. If you think America doesn't care then say it. Don't reply with "you don't care about life" after I just asked for about it. It shows your either slow..or ignorant.
@garfieldandfriends1 erm not really. only the ones on the elevated stations are 3/4 the height of the trains. the underground PSDs are also full height
They should have these barriers at every station on the L.U when they refurbish them. In my opinion it's to stop depressed people chucking them selves onto on coming trains and making them get delay or parts of the line suspended.
excelente!! ojala aqui en caracas venezuela colocaran ese sistema para evitar la gran cantidad de suicidios que ocasionan retrasos y perjudican a los demas usuarios
It actually has more to do with air pressure. When the extension was built all the Jubilee line stations were built with a huge fan system to clear smoke from the tunnels. The Platform Edge Doors not only stop a portion of the smoke getting into the station but also prevent major changes in air pressure so that passengers are not blown over. Now you know.
They are to stop "one unders" either accidental or intended, we copied the ones on the Paris Metro (line 14 I believe) for the JLE. Thye won't stop flooding as they aren't water tight but they do stop litter and dust getting blown around so the stations on the extension are a lot cleaner as a whole.
Sadly it would cost a fortune to fit all platforms with these and you can't install them on curves
yo it stops a bombing by reducing the number of causlties ie a bomber can be aprrehended before he gets on the 'tube' or off the 'tube' on that stop it llimits the damage to people and to the tubes also it stops people faling onto the line, an it stops fire spreading. an it add to the shite clastrophobic experiance of the tube whch is why i never get it cos its meant for dwarfs from the 20's - all lines. thats why the tubo is so small cos all the london dwarfs.
@turkaskeri0 fuck you you wouldn't know a bomb is it hit you in the face ie im finding your ip address and sending you one. you dumb fuck what do you know about bombs how you like to have to fit into a metal can every time to get where your going underground when we could all be dying from fires or flooding or bombs oh im sorry your already sitting in one cos its your coffin and its made of lead so stfu!!!!!!!!!!! ps your mum sends me her love. (everynight) alright
@turkaskeri0 you dirty turk i hope some kurds come and and kick your shitty country into the med. you probably live in newington green ill come there and stick a kebab stick up your ass. oh, you'd like that my bad.
@Mindraker1 Accident/suicide prevention is just an added bonus. The main reason these are installed is to aid air circulation flows and control temperatures.
@Mindraker1 accidently on purpose lol i used to get pissed off when my mum told me to stay away from the line cos i could fall down yet i always stood right on the edge....now that im older i get freaked out if i stand like a foot from the edge lol
@toxic2k7 Well, the air pressure does drop because of the fast moving subway, causing one to be pulled somewhat towards the tracks. But you have to be right on the edge to feel this.
It isn't a sucide prevention, it's because the train has no train driver. The walls are there to avoid people of falling between train and platform or rather the train can't depart until the doors are completely closed.
It's not about suicide prevention. These platform doors are because of the common safety, so that people don't push themselves into the railroad track during the traffic jams.
i once watched an episode of london tube on sky three a little while back n there was this new driver n he had nvr been to any of the sations with those suicide prevention doors, so the commentator said if the driver dosent line up with those dorrs exactly, they wont open at all
those doors and windows are kinda better i nearly fell on the track once and one child on the news one day fell on the track and the train went under him he was 5 or 6 years old
smart very smart.... japan would do the same but for the train to stop for a day so they could put 1 in would cause millions of people not going to work, there for the prices of comon things would sky rocket lolz
During trials, 'lifelike dummies' of varying sizes were placed on the platforms and the advanced signalling system was tested to allow high speed acceleration of the train as it left the station, from a standing start. Many of the dummies ended up on the track, hence the additional costing factor to allow for platform edge doors (PED's) to be fitted. Sure, there are additional benefits, as discussed in other comments, but this is the primary reason.
The doors are provided due to the advanced possibilities in the nature of the signalling system, which can allow trains to exit a station with very fast acceleration rates. The resultant air vortices can drag passengers off of the platform and onto the track. This type of signalling is not available on the whole of the Jubilee Line, hence the lack of platform edge doors elsewhere on the Line. However, at present, the advanced system is limited to 'normal' operation until further notice.
But it will cost money!! they will never do it! LOL.
I thought this idea was presented to them already.. and look at how many people have been pushed in.. Toronto for being such a major city is soooo slow. We just got automated station announcements and the woman sounds horrible.
The trains on the Metropolitan line were built in two batches: in 1960 and 1962, making them the oldest tube trains in the whole of LU in regular passenger service! And they still work brilliantly!
They should have them at London Bridge so that selfish, suicidal pricks don't hold up the line and make us all late for work.
BenGordonBITCHSLAP 1 week ago
these are actually to prevent fires spreading like in the tragic kings cross fire. The fire travelled through the tunnel and soon as it got to the platform it was like a vacuum, the fire immediately went up the escalators engulfing everything and everyone in it's way
TomRichardson92 1 month ago
The only stations with these doors are the central jubilee line stations. They were built as " bomb proof" doors as these are the stations nearest to the important buildings
1dannymurphy 1 month ago
It's only the jubilee line which has those as far as I know.
TheLogicalKey 1 month ago
is not to stop people from being pushed onto the rails, if that was the problem they'd have built some metal barriers not expensive glass walls, I reckon that the top comment is the most appropriate
babyhollywoodisdead1 1 month ago
mind the gap mind the bloody gap a twig couldent fit through there
skybluesalex 1 month ago
Like in Copenhagen :)
Jeezzper 1 month ago
Also to stop wind
MaxQualityHD 2 months ago
They are also doing it for Moscow and Dubai...
TheEZPAXIIChannel 2 months ago
was this westminster?
madbrooke1 2 months ago
@madbrooke1 yes if you pause at 0:15 on the top of the door u see the sign reflection that says westminster
XxLiLGiJoE17xX 2 months ago
sounds like a formula one when it starts moving
daggertom1 2 months ago
They are good but wene I was watching a London underground TV Episode thy said if the driver dident stop at the doors correctly then the doors wouldn't open ! :).
TobyParr 2 months ago
These station is like some stations on an old lines in the center of Saint-Petersburg. It's called "horizontal lift" in Russia. That's good for passenger's security, but hitching additional vagons in case of passenger flow increasing is impossible.
VadikKMV 3 months ago
When I was in Hong Kong the MTR had them at every station I went to.
RobertNicholls 3 months ago
Whatever it is its a good idea.
TsoLan1 4 months ago
This is much like modern elevators.
The reason this is only now becoming common is that the train is now under automated control.
Prior to this it would not have been possible to have the precision needed to line up so well.
Old manual elevators had the same problem, and the solution was to allow the people to see how close the car was, thus the grates and such.
Arabhacks 5 months ago
@Arabhacks The train in the video is being driven manually, only recently has it begun Automatic Operation
bronzeonion 4 months ago
is that westminster station?
rifting1224 5 months ago
IT's not just suicide prevention, most subways in Asia have these platform screen doors because it prevents litter also being blown onto the tracks.
georgehenryhsu 5 months ago
MY UNCLE DESIGNED THIS SYSTEM :)
GeorgeBoy123100 5 months ago
@GeorgeBoy123100 fine. If you dad designed this system. Tell me everything. If you do not know, shut up.
JasperLee93AiMasterz 5 months ago
it should put it in all station so it was SAFE!
btproblox 6 months ago
That is the Jubilee line London
Aniki1609 7 months ago
The platform edge doors were put in to mitigate against fire risk as they prevent the piston effect where flames were fanned by passing trains. This was all done in the wake of the Fennel report into the King's Cross fire in 1987
cjmillsnun 7 months ago 2
Everything has to be save for idiots today...
I'm glad we don't have this shit in viennea...
se11001 8 months ago
@se11001 everyone has this "shit" and idiots everywhere many are jsut unheard off and these "idiots" you call maybe had life problems and they think suicide is the best solution to that problem. By calling them idiots it's like your saying they commited suicide jsut for the "fun/hell" of itl
GearSAlec 8 months ago
@GearSAlec
Maybe you're right. But I think there are more efficient ways to prevent people from killing thereselves than building up walls. Maybe somebody should speak to them or something like that... I'm sure these people would find another way to kill themselves. I'm just not a friend of the "nothing can happen"- society. I have the fear that if these measures get even more, more people will walk through the world and don't think about any dangers. But people will sue the company if it isn't
se11001 8 months ago 2
@se11001
absolutely 100% sure, just like in the USA I think. It is getting in that direction.
se11001 8 months ago
They are only at the rich areas, everyone else gets to top themselves
gunmadkiller 8 months ago
I wondered what those gates were for.....
macrent2 9 months ago
they should do that on the LIRR
dukee155 9 months ago
Venezuela need it......... see Venezuela Metro.
HS4HARTER 9 months ago
They only did these on the busiest Line, on the busiest stations.
Coxyoo 9 months ago
@Coxyoo only on the jubilee line
Asapoo 8 months ago
It's not because of air quality or suicide, it's because people got pushed on to tracks at peak time as it was so busy.
Kenneth4Comedy 9 months ago
a lot of places have these now
JohnEdwardBiggs 10 months ago
The majority of the tube tracks at station platforms in central London are raised and have space underneath them. The spaces beneath tehm are nicknamed the Suicide Pits. If you were to fall down onto the tracks and a trainw as coming you would drop into the pit and wait for teh train to pass. The stations with the mechanical doors seen here do not have these pits beneath their tracks, that's why I always assumed the doors where there.
DevineCaesar 10 months ago
One of their functions is for Suicide prevention, but their original function was actually ventilation believe it or not, they were cheaper to install instead of large ventilation systems for track level
lindsaymobil22 11 months ago
Man why dont we have these in australia?
azaman1000 11 months ago
Australia does not have anything like this in our underground rail stations.
Australia is really backward when it comes to technology.
marxian00 1 year ago
This has been in London for years lol.
Oh yea, Seoul in South Korea has it aswell
kinnane4 1 year ago
This has been in Hong Kong for years....
Caineheist 1 year ago
i dont know why but i always loved the noise the tubes made when powering on its obviously the electric motor kicking in at 0:47 till the end of the video. I always remember this about the tube when i visited london over 13 years ago
motorheaddude07 1 year ago
is this how it is in london now? :(
tag1989 1 year ago
@tag1989 Not not all stations most of them are still how they were orgianlly
iloveGTA123 1 year ago 17
Attack on London was a inside job to justify war on terror, on the day of London attack 10,000 CCTV cameras were switched off. click justice party UK.
justicepartyuk 1 year ago
London is the best city ever.
neaped 1 year ago
It is for air conditioning and prevention of injury
camdidafart 1 year ago
@camdidafart The plan was to stop jumpers,the drivers are traumatised by the suicides,i have been on trains many times when it has had to be held up in order to remove a body from the tracks(they are honest enough to tell us the truth).I have also known people who have died that way too.
The barriers are not present on every line,only the Jubilee,so if anyone gets the urge they can go to any number of under/overground stations or most stretches of track have the outdated 3rd electrified rail.
TZEITEL10 11 months ago
@TZEITEL10 I was one of the people who put the doors in so i think i know what i am talking about
camdidafart 10 months ago
@camdidafart How do these screens help the air conditioning?did you ask why you were installing them as it seems there are theories everywhere,
TZEITEL10 10 months ago
@TZEITEL10 you have to regulate the air flow underground to ensure the QUALITY of the air is safely breathable, air condition in that sense rather than controlling temperature
rsfllw 10 months ago
@camdidafart thats bull
MrSkyrimfan 10 months ago
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RomaRostovNaDonu 1 year ago
Suiide Prevention ? ? How about preventing a person who is a few cocconut short of a palm tree from shoving someone in front of an onconning train. or having something thrown on the track.
kidfrombrooklyn66 1 year ago
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FoxtrotPrintingCom 1 year ago
If I want to commit suicide on the Tube, I just talk to the passenger on my left/right with disco leg
indyandsam 1 year ago
SO CLEVER!
nafisa02 1 year ago
The doors were built because it would save millions of pounds by not having to put air wind excluders in the tunnels. The doors are there for better air quality thats why they built them.
fantasticministry2 1 year ago 35
@fantasticministry2 it would work for suicide prevention too.
MEGA714 6 months ago
@fantasticministry2 Your a bit right.. Remember the kings cross fire. It was said that the trains cause the fire to go even more deeper into the station. ITS THE WIND = =
aideed247 3 months ago
@aideed247 On the above ground stations on the jubilee line extension, the stations don't have them as the suicides were "Low Priority"
fantasticministry2 3 months ago
We need this in NY!!! :D
wilson809isback 1 year ago
Singapore had them first..
GirlThatKnowsYou 1 year ago
good idea
benmulpeter 1 year ago
I <3 London. Just a shame that the last time I went with my mother and sister...
ejl1000 1 year ago
london is not awesome london is a strict piece of shit with tight ass people that dont know what fun is. fuck london
fishbirdfish 1 year ago
@fishbirdfish come to newcastle upon tyne! you'll love it
TheYazoo321 1 year ago
@TheYazoo321 have you been to manors rail station yet? you can get some great horns there!
Joshie7797 1 year ago
@Joshie7797 IM NOT INTO TRAINS OR METROS MATE THIS VID WAS RECOMMENDED FOR ME FOR SOME REASON! I HAVE BEEN TO MANORS STATION MANY TIMES THO! DO YOU KNOW WERE THE TUNNEL GOES TO AFTER MANORS? COZ THE TRAIN STOP THERE AND GOES BACK ON ITSELF BUT THE TUNNEL CONTINUES?
TheYazoo321 1 year ago
@TheYazoo321 yes
thats the emergency line that goes from Jesmond - Manors
if the dead mans handle is activated the train is put on the emergency line and is derailed
Joshie7797 1 year ago
Nice sound
LolonMatinez 1 year ago
now i wanna visit london oneday
sammy122576 1 year ago
Hong Kong is so much like UK in general
kl9977gmail 1 year ago
@kl9977gmail should sort of be the other way: hong kong was built mainly by the british. hence the similarities.
mrtulala1 1 year ago
This is becoming more common all over the world. It is standard on automated systems without operators. Not only suicides, but accidents and assaults.
robert3302 1 year ago
They're actually there to allow trains to accelerate faster out of stations. In tests they made with that acceleration without the platform edge doors most of the dummies ended up in the track or on the platform floor, so the edge doors were installed to allow for faster acceleration.
ShadowRSonic 1 year ago
It's not just for suicide or accidents. It helps eliminate something called the piston effect when a train approaches a platform
rawrgrr4298 1 year ago
plataform doors at sao paulo tube station
/watch?v=lw4ddC69R5w
scscorinthians 1 year ago
London Underground = best transport system in the world (well, outside of Tokyo).
bbukfan 1 year ago
@bbukfan you should check out hong kong's metro
EiNocturne 1 year ago
@bbukfan and new york
ContinentaI 1 year ago
damn that train is fast the ones here in nyc are half as fast lol!
JamesDCallDay 1 year ago
i hate what happend in 2005 !!!! :@
imyk2k9 1 year ago
These should be everywhere I always feel worried when standing on a jam packed platform
BritishPrashant 1 year ago
subways in any nation are better than NYC's..
SilverChevalier 1 year ago
its probably just to keep people away from the tracks and all of above
iPopcorn 1 year ago
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iPopcorn 1 year ago
Problem With These Is That The Train Has To Stop With Exact Presion, Couple Of Weeks Ago When Traveling -Shopping With a Friend- With a Freind, We Couldn't Get On Because The Car Doors And Station Doors Weren't Allined Properly.
daleksec53 1 year ago
every station should have this
omgodsword 1 year ago
FYI they were designed to reduce the movement of air caused by emergency ventilation fans which activate in event of a fire.
(See the Kings Cross Fire and you will see what I mean)
Reducing suicides was also in the back of the designers' minds , but that isn't the real purpose of these platform screen doors.
(Besides if you want to jump in front of a tube train, you CAN jump in front of a tube train, you just have to go to Clapham Common like the rest of the lunatics)
Nice Vid.
Doomsday2060 1 year ago
lols did london or singapore have this first =.=
inuwiz 1 year ago
Which station is that?
smonoco 1 year ago
@smonoco
Westminster station :)
beyblader10171 1 year ago
@smonoco Westminster.
NoctisEreptor 1 year ago
Barcelona is also a city with the same system in lines 9, 10 and 11
10pauin 1 year ago
why doesn't America do this?
mwarrior17 1 year ago
@mwarrior17 we do, its called NYC subway, or any other major city. This line doesn't go all across the UK just London. It does have alot of stops though
TaylorMaid01234 1 year ago
@mwarrior17 You don't care for other human life.
NoctisEreptor 1 year ago
@NoctisEreptor I don't. I only care about my dog Shepard, and my human hyb- experiment in my basement....
mwarrior17 1 year ago
@mwarrior17 Then why ask If American doesn't do the same then? Why ask that question? I gave you an answer, then you gave an answer, don't ask a question if you're going to answer it yourself, silly person.
NoctisEreptor 1 year ago
@NoctisEreptor Stop speaking like your on crack. I'm making fun of you for giving a stupid answer. Of course I care. Why wouldn't I? That's why I said why didn't America build one. If you think America doesn't care then say it. Don't reply with "you don't care about life" after I just asked for about it. It shows your either slow..or ignorant.
mwarrior17 1 year ago
@mwarrior17 Yes yes I'm sure.
NoctisEreptor 1 year ago
@mwarrior17 No I think Noctis means that If you already knew the answer why ask it? These are suicide barriers, they're at westminster do the maths!
MrLuvlyJubly 1 year ago
everything is tubed there
bundeligafan 1 year ago
WHY PSD was so high? singapore one was 3/4 height of the trains and this trains was sound like north-east line singapore trains (C751A)
garfieldandfriends1 1 year ago
@garfieldandfriends1 erm not really. only the ones on the elevated stations are 3/4 the height of the trains. the underground PSDs are also full height
he0is0it 1 year ago
@he0is0it oh wait this video the PSD are full height? i never noticed earlier...
garfieldandfriends1 1 year ago
They should have these barriers at every station on the L.U when they refurbish them. In my opinion it's to stop depressed people chucking them selves onto on coming trains and making them get delay or parts of the line suspended.
jack253 1 year ago
They should put this on all the stations, yesterday one girl jumped in front of a train and killed her self on my station :( R.I.P
kalasnikov47 1 year ago
It is an explosion containment thing. This line runs directly under parliament, which is why it is the deepest station.
woodpod 1 year ago
@woodpod
Why people quickly relate the word suicide to explosion? It's there to stop people jumping in front of moving trains.
omfirstutube 1 year ago
i swear i could smell the tube when this video played!!
AsboDolche 1 year ago
excelente!! ojala aqui en caracas venezuela colocaran ese sistema para evitar la gran cantidad de suicidios que ocasionan retrasos y perjudican a los demas usuarios
pimpirrinio1 1 year ago
It actually has more to do with air pressure. When the extension was built all the Jubilee line stations were built with a huge fan system to clear smoke from the tunnels. The Platform Edge Doors not only stop a portion of the smoke getting into the station but also prevent major changes in air pressure so that passengers are not blown over. Now you know.
DEVOS1778 1 year ago
@AdamNumbuh1 No, London is the pitts.
X46RAPTOR 1 year ago
Most stations don't have this feature, so just go to the next stop and kill yourself there :)
mightyPants 1 year ago
They are to stop "one unders" either accidental or intended, we copied the ones on the Paris Metro (line 14 I believe) for the JLE. Thye won't stop flooding as they aren't water tight but they do stop litter and dust getting blown around so the stations on the extension are a lot cleaner as a whole.
Sadly it would cost a fortune to fit all platforms with these and you can't install them on curves
blondini61 1 year ago
they are doing something like this in Sydney i believe.
clubpenguin777 1 year ago
Helps to stop fires spreading too. Eg. the london escalator fire??
HitchinTrains 1 year ago
@HitchinTrains well it stops wind escalating the fire
HitchinTrains 1 year ago
NO SUICIDE HOOHAH LOL
turkaskeri0 1 year ago
i was in london for a week a month ago wat a city defo going back :)
paddylegend23 1 year ago
These are also to prevent being swept away by the currents if the train doesnt stop
Zmaczimum 1 year ago
some fool will still manage to get on that track dispite these new doors
dougiewhite778 1 year ago
yo it stops a bombing by reducing the number of causlties ie a bomber can be aprrehended before he gets on the 'tube' or off the 'tube' on that stop it llimits the damage to people and to the tubes also it stops people faling onto the line, an it stops fire spreading. an it add to the shite clastrophobic experiance of the tube whch is why i never get it cos its meant for dwarfs from the 20's - all lines. thats why the tubo is so small cos all the london dwarfs.
muuuungo 1 year ago
@muuuungo
the glass won,t stop a bomb you stupid fu,k
turkaskeri0 1 year ago
@turkaskeri0 fuck you you wouldn't know a bomb is it hit you in the face ie im finding your ip address and sending you one. you dumb fuck what do you know about bombs how you like to have to fit into a metal can every time to get where your going underground when we could all be dying from fires or flooding or bombs oh im sorry your already sitting in one cos its your coffin and its made of lead so stfu!!!!!!!!!!! ps your mum sends me her love. (everynight) alright
muuuungo 1 year ago
@muuuungo
than find my IP adress you little coakaroch
send me a bomb
i will welcome your ass
that window is for safety for no suiciding
its not meant to stop a bomb
well hey lol
just wait till the doors open than blow urself up hoohah,
turkaskeri0 1 year ago
@turkaskeri0 you dirty turk i hope some kurds come and and kick your shitty country into the med. you probably live in newington green ill come there and stick a kebab stick up your ass. oh, you'd like that my bad.
muuuungo 1 year ago
@muuuungo
kurds kick my country to the med mate?
you should realise that the kurds here have PKK terrorist and an outdated pussy peshmerga militia.
while we turks have 1 million soldiers, 250 f16,s 96 F35,s soon , 2000 tanks, biggest navy of middle east.
i burn kurds for fun, but if it is for my country, ill do my best to slaughter them.
turkaskeri0 1 year ago
It's not necessarily suicide prevention as accident prevention, I believe. People do tend to fall over the edges by accident.
Mindraker1 1 year ago 19
@Mindraker1 Accident/suicide prevention is just an added bonus. The main reason these are installed is to aid air circulation flows and control temperatures.
chunkymon24490 1 year ago
@Mindraker1 accidently on purpose lol i used to get pissed off when my mum told me to stay away from the line cos i could fall down yet i always stood right on the edge....now that im older i get freaked out if i stand like a foot from the edge lol
toxic2k7 1 year ago
@toxic2k7 Well, the air pressure does drop because of the fast moving subway, causing one to be pulled somewhat towards the tracks. But you have to be right on the edge to feel this.
Mindraker1 1 year ago
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@Mindraker1 "People do tend to fall over the edges by accident."
that made me LOL XD
jthqrules 1 year ago
It's not suicide prevention. It's really just to avoid people falling under the tracks. A lot of the stations on the Jubilee line seem to have them.
cardwitch91 2 years ago
Bollocs, it is obviously for Safety ie, to avoid people getting run down by trains, doofus!
nair0bij0nes 2 years ago
It isn't a sucide prevention, it's because the train has no train driver. The walls are there to avoid people of falling between train and platform or rather the train can't depart until the doors are completely closed.
DaviVilla11 2 years ago
how do you mean it has no train driver , its not auto
ClareAer 2 years ago
@DaviVilla11 Utter drivel. This IS suicide prevention.
NoctisEreptor 1 year ago
Another purpose is to have stations properly Air conditioned.
NeoFalcon69 2 years ago
It's also to protect people from hazardous particles from the brakes and rails which have lately been known to cause health issues.
enemixius 2 years ago
Dude, we're British its to stop us drunks falling on the tracks.
abbottone 2 years ago 2
stop it from getting bombed yo nex to westminster parliamentalists
muuuungo 2 years ago
how does it prevent a bombing?
Muckydoggy1 1 year ago
paris has also line whit this kind of doors...
TheJoshsam 2 years ago
in Denmark there are those kind of metro doors i think its for preventing falling to the rails
B7571 2 years ago
there not Suicide Prevention thay are there to stop over crowed platforms because people get pushed on to the tracks
cutedale19 2 years ago
westminster jubilee line, get that bluudy train to neasden every morning looooong
hightimes88 2 years ago
Don't you people get it:
It's not about suicide prevention. These platform doors are because of the common safety, so that people don't push themselves into the railroad track during the traffic jams.
djkandahar69 2 years ago
good idea. On my first evening in London I almost got pushed down there *-*
:D
Still, I think this looks strange :)
Theralex 2 years ago
@djkandahar69 These are suicide barriers. 1 every 7 days in 1999 at it's peak. Westminster, and most of the Jubilee line is like this.
NoctisEreptor 1 year ago
where I can find this videos to download please if someone can help me thanks
Shevank 2 years ago
@Shevank i can download it for you and send it ?
bubzvlog 2 years ago
smart idea! the new york subway stations freak me out because they r so narrow!
555clueless555 2 years ago
i once watched an episode of london tube on sky three a little while back n there was this new driver n he had nvr been to any of the sations with those suicide prevention doors, so the commentator said if the driver dosent line up with those dorrs exactly, they wont open at all
lindsaymobil22 2 years ago
they are not suicide prevention doors.
they are actually there to control the flow of fire......
endof2012 2 years ago
or to prevent the piston effect.
davids5a2 2 years ago
and jubillie line is the best line cause if u have a buggy or disable chair its better and im english!
001jellybee 2 years ago
those doors and windows are kinda better i nearly fell on the track once and one child on the news one day fell on the track and the train went under him he was 5 or 6 years old
001jellybee 2 years ago
I think they should have those kind of things in other underground stations. They get VERY cramped at times, and someone could fall onto the tracks.
drponyslayer 2 years ago 2
EH? It look like Singapore NS17 Bishan
MoriTakere 2 years ago
nope,the train sounds like C751A from the north east line in singapore
kttandon 2 years ago 2
@kttandon same here
garfieldandfriends1 1 year ago
smart very smart.... japan would do the same but for the train to stop for a day so they could put 1 in would cause millions of people not going to work, there for the prices of comon things would sky rocket lolz
omgroy1587 2 years ago
They done it also in Turin (Italy)
IGMD80 2 years ago
this glass wall is only installed at the jubilee line all stations southern westminster
8CarlJohnson8 2 years ago
Suicide Prevention?
This is smart for all sorts of accidents to.
Robbaz 2 years ago 3
Not sure why this is designed this way, but most London tube stations don't have it yet.
nezpercenathan 2 years ago
During trials, 'lifelike dummies' of varying sizes were placed on the platforms and the advanced signalling system was tested to allow high speed acceleration of the train as it left the station, from a standing start. Many of the dummies ended up on the track, hence the additional costing factor to allow for platform edge doors (PED's) to be fitted. Sure, there are additional benefits, as discussed in other comments, but this is the primary reason.
Mr6292 2 years ago
The doors are provided due to the advanced possibilities in the nature of the signalling system, which can allow trains to exit a station with very fast acceleration rates. The resultant air vortices can drag passengers off of the platform and onto the track. This type of signalling is not available on the whole of the Jubilee Line, hence the lack of platform edge doors elsewhere on the Line. However, at present, the advanced system is limited to 'normal' operation until further notice.
Mr6292 2 years ago
Wow, I didn't know the London Underground's train noise sounds very similar to Vancouver's Skytrain's noise.
thibaulthalpern 2 years ago
I love this idea. I'm taking this to the City Council in Toronto!
RobeonMew 2 years ago 3
But it will cost money!! they will never do it! LOL.
I thought this idea was presented to them already.. and look at how many people have been pushed in.. Toronto for being such a major city is soooo slow. We just got automated station announcements and the woman sounds horrible.
Clarinder19 2 years ago
so true. Torontonians still use 1970 Trains that all have passed their half life.
RobeonMew 2 years ago
Montreal still uses trains from 1966, and still in great shape.
all about quality
AntoDamicoShow 2 years ago
well ours are of great quality too
its the transit users that eff it up
they neve pick up their garbage, they are disgusting bums on our trains. just not fair i say
^_^;;
RobeonMew 2 years ago
Nice!
The trains on the Metropolitan line were built in two batches: in 1960 and 1962, making them the oldest tube trains in the whole of LU in regular passenger service! And they still work brilliantly!
321loverdesirohater 2 years ago