Mind the gap! Entering a train on London's underground Piccadilly line

Here Tami boards the Piccadilly line ahead of me. We were on a short layover on a trip home to Denver from New Delhi.

Here's my personal web page about London and the United Kingdom:
http://www.rogerwendell.com/unitedkingdom.html

12-07-2008

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• piccadilly
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[TheMellowmonkey]

My favorite line is Piccadilly Line :-D

[zeekzilch]

@TheMellowmonkey

Mine too!

[CBeaumontXylophone]

Platform height alterations that have never been done, since the Piccadilly line started operations in that area - the Heathrow Branch up to Hatton Cross I think, (before airport extension), was run by the larger trains of the District Line. The shape of the deep level stock in the head area by the doors, is the main excuse for this being as it is I reckon - hitting ones head when stepping out and up, or down and in, is quite hard to do because of the curved shape.

[zeekzilch]

@CBeaumontXylophone

Good information - thank you for sharing it with us!

[NASIRUB1]

They should fix that, I mean in NYC their are large spaces between the train and platform but they add a piece of wood to close that gap. In this situation you can't do that because that is not a gap it is more like a ledge. I wonder how women with their baby carriages are supposed clear that in time before the doors close up on them?

[zeekzilch]

@NASIRUB1

My guess is the that the people using the tube, in London, are accustomed to the physical layout and know to step over the gap. As far as baby carriages, I've seen people carefully lift each set of wheels as they pass over the gap.

[oxstar]

2 people fell down the gap

[Doomsday2060]

@kartoffel13

Safety messages on the street are for tourists, because the minute they walk out of waterloo station they forget that we drive on the correct side of the road over here.

[zeekzilch]

@CadenceCPK

Thank you for the information!

[CadenceCPK]

@zeekzilch Hammersmith station? Because it is an interchange with the H&C line, also it is ground level and not like KCSP.

[DBMatze93]

sorry, but either you didn't understand the comment "2 people fell down the gap" or your answer isn't funny at all.