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That's true if someone is still able to walk. For people who need medical assistance you need to alert the driver to ensure the train won't continue.

I think they started these announcements because people considered someone feeling dizzy a medical emergency.



I can see that it could be wise to pull the emergency handle at the station to prevent the train moving if, say, someone were having a heart attack and couldn't easily be moved to the platform.

But pulling it between stations would only prolong the time it took for the person to get help.


It won't as there are no emergency brakes on Tubes, they're just called emergency brake. The train continues to the station and will then remain there.


Regardless of whether the emergency handle is connected to a physical brake or if it sounds a alarm, there is an emergency brake. If the driver removes their hand from the dead man's switch, the emergency brake engages. But that's a side-road to this discussion.

Unless you can point to official advice from TfL that states otherwise, I'm just gonna come out and say that I think it's best to stick to the advice TfL give at stations which is not to pull the emergency handle if someone is unwell. Whatever the precise action that results from pulling the handle (whether that's sounding an alarm, engaging a brake, or whatever), I don't see what it would achieve between stations and especially when TfL say not to do it.


There are very limited scenarios where you want to pull the brake; e.g. the door has closes on a passenger and is dragging them along.

But of course these are very limited and you almost never actually want to do that.


In the Stockholm metro there is a intercom to the driver for talking from the wagons. Is there one in London?


Yes, but the audio quality is not very good. There was a recent incident that was exacerbated by a driver mishearing "there's a fire" as "there's a fight".




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