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Don't most trains now have a button to communicate with the driver, so you wouldn't have to go all hulk on the doors?
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What constitutes an emergency? I feel like small child getting left at a station by themselves would warrant pulling the door release.
Train drivers on train forums have stated that a child or other vulnerable person being separated is a reason to pull the alarm. Do that first, the driver should then release the doors.
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Today I saw an incident at the station where the train doors closed with a small child on the platform and clearly their parent inside the train (turned out to be a parent plus smaller child inside). Someone had put their arm in the doors so they couldn't close (looked a little painful). Someone else on the platform (a passerby) noticed and simultaneously was trying to calm the small child (prevent them falling down the edge of the platform) and wave at the driver. I was at some distance so couldn't see very well but I don't think the doors were released, rather I assume that a few people helped force them open to allow the rest of the family off and after a few moments the train left.
I was wondering - on the train is an emergency door release lever, and an emergency alarm speak to driver button. Everyone is kind of trained not to use them. What constitutes an emergency? I feel like small child getting left at a station by themselves would warrant pulling the door release. But does that then require the doors to be reset or something? (I've been on trains where some wag has pulled the emergency door release for laughs, with the effect that the train was taken out of action.) Should you also push the other button so the driver knows what's happening?