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Woman tries boarding moving train in Beverly, slips, falls
By adamg on Mon, 09/22/2014 - 8:33am
Happened around 8 a.m. on an inbound Rockport train, according to Bill Kyrouz and Lisse, who were on the train.
Lisse reports the woman tried boarding the train as it was pulling out of the station. Fortunately, she says, a "quick thinking conductor" applied the emergency brake and the woman appeared to suffer only a cut head.
The woman was transported to Beverly Hospital alert and conscious.
Train service on the line is now halted.
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If you live on the North
If you live on the North Shore and have a car, just drive this morning. Even before this incident the entire line was already a hot mess.
North Shore Car Pool
When this happens, people in my office text one another. Then somebody in Gloucester, who owns a minivan, sets out and scoops the other four people up. They either use the parking pass or chip in.
Working in a small office has its advantages!
Impatience
This woman's train left at 8:01. Had she missed that train, she would have been forced to wait 9 minutes for the next train, which leaves at 8:10 (but it's a local, so it gets in a whole 13 minutes later than the 8:01). And if she had gone to get a cup of coffee and missed that, there's another one at 8:23.
In other words, from 8:01 to 8:23, there is basically better service from Beverly than there is on the B Line. Maybe this woman will learn her lesson and, next time, just wait 10 minutes.
I hope she'll be okay
However, trying to board a moving train is a HUGE no-no, even if it's moving slowly. There's always the next one. Hope her recovery goes well.
I once missed a Providence
I once missed a Providence train by about 1 second. It seemed like it would have been really easy to hop inside a car when that train was moving about 1MPH. This was also around the time (ca. 1998) when a few people got killed crossing the tracks in South Attleborough and the MBTA closed the at-grade pedestrian crossing at that station for safety reasons. The conductor looked at me and said, "Don't get on," and I knew he was right.
Stupid question?
Forgive me, I don't use the commuter rail often.
Why don't they close the doors before the train starts moving?
To save time, and for the
To save time, and for the conductors to keep an eye out for incidents like this, signal to the engineer, etc.
It's not a safety hazard because all doors are attended by a conductor.
I've always wondered why the
I've always wondered why the doors don't close before the train departs, for safety reasons.
Maybe all the open doors are now staffed, but when I was taking the commuter rail, there were many open, unstaffed doors.
But the French run the trains now
Keolis, a French rail company, has operated the commuter rail since July 1st.
Sometimes passengers open
Sometimes passengers open their own doors at high level platforms, which they're not supposed to do, and sometimes the conductor has to tend to something important and leaves an open door, but all open doors are supposed to be attended by a conductor.
The newer cars have power doors, but these can only be used on lines that are entirely high-platform, which is pretty much just the Greenbush line, because at low platforms the conductor has to open the stair trap. And they cause issues because they don't allow the brakes to release if a door is open, so one malfunctioning door sensor can prevent an entire train from moving.
It's so ridiculous that
It's so ridiculous that people act this way. I always see people running for trains. How about getting up earlier and giving yourself extra time. If you are so desperate to get on a MOVING train then perhaps you need to change your old ways. This is just as bad as people walking down the street with their heads in their phones
Brilliant
That's brilliant. I'm sure that never occurred to them. To bad you weren't around to give them advice first thing in the morning.