Maggie was right

[Mich the Tester]

I guess she had a butler to open them for her?

I don’t think so. Not Mrs Thatcher. No way. Mrs Thatcher opened her own doors, and kicked them down if necessary.

[AtW]

Did it ever occur to you that this might have been a safety feature to cut down on the chances of opening the doors when the train is in motion?

My view was that it's not safe to open window to bend over it to open the door from outside. Even when train is stationary. Thankfully this tulip is gone now, but train tickets are well expensive

[Churchill]

My view was that it's not safe to open window to bend over it to open the door from outside. Even when train is stationary. Thankfully this tulip is gone now, but train tickets are well expensive

No it's not. There are still carriages in use that have this safety feature.

Someone pass me a micrometer, I wish to measure AtW's breadth of knowledge!

[Doggy Styles]

When do you think socialists start doing it? It's when the previous greedy party that won't invest smartly and get tulipy trains like I described, then it creates OPENING to some socialist barsteward who'd say - let's tax the rich to fix trains etc: one leads to another.

So Thatcher and Conservatives in general are also responsible for what Labour did - after all if Conservatives were so bloody wonderful they would not lose their jobs

Whereas in utopia there would be no need for socialists, eh?

[EternalOptimist]

Jeez
I dont think Peter Mandleson could have done a better job in diverting this thread

well done the squirrel fancier

[AtW]

No it's not. There are still carriages in use that have this safety feature. Someone pass me a micrometer, I wish to measure AtW's breadth of knowledge!

Not on the lines that I use thankfully.

Slower lines use pretty tulipy trains that make those Intercity ones with bend-over-to-open doors pretty good.

[Churchill]

The doors are automatically locked when the train is in motion so its not a safety feature.

Automatic locks were retrofitted to carriages.

[Churchill]

Not on the lines that I use thankfully.

Slower lines use pretty tulipy trains that make those Intercity ones with bend-over-to-open doors pretty good.

Bend over to reach a handle? FFS, who runs your trains? Hornby? You're only a shortarse FFS!

[Mich the Tester]

Jeez
I dont think Peter Mandleson could have done a better job in diverting this thread

well done the squirrel fancier

Door handles. FFS.

[Moscow Mule]

The doors are automatically locked when the train is in motion so its not a safety feature.

Not in the slam door trains that ATW is describing.

They were f'in brilliant as you could open the door whilst it was coming into Waterloo and get a running start down to the tube. And each carriage had 8 doors on either side so there wasn't the scrum to get out of the 2 doors carriages have these days.