Shouldn't there be enough time to change platform when a traveller is asked suddenly to change trains?

This is not the first time as by the time I get to the other train it departs without me?!

Hence, I had to go back and forth trying to find someone to let me know why I was left behind and which train will take me home.

This lengthen my total trip adding at least one hour more to the Journey time as well as the stress and having to wait in a cold platform.

Yesterday I had 3 bags to carry, I got out of the first train when I was suddenly advised to change to a faster train in another platform. The train officer advised me to take the lift to the other platform. I actually had to walk to the end of platform take 2 lifts and cross a bridge only to find when I finally got to the fast train that its doors wouldn't open and left without me.
Then I had to change platforms again only to miss a 3rd train and hence I had to wait for the 4th train for another half an hour!!

Help!

Sometimes I think that causing/allowing passengers to miss train connections provides amusement/entertainment to bored train staff.

> Sometimes I think that causing/allowing passengers to
> miss train connections provides
> amusement/entertainment to bored train staff.

I wasn't changing trains at the time, but once I was trying to catch a train at Kings Cross station - in the little annex where platforms 9 and above live. I was the only person there, except for the server in the little coffee shop, and the station chap who blows his whistle and signals the trains departure. I was running. Fast. With a 15kg bag in each hand (was on my way home from Heathrow). The train was at the far end of the platform, behind another parked train. How far do you think I got down the platform before the uniformed **** sent the train off without me? That's right, approximately 6 inches from the first set of doors just to get a good close-up view of them closing. Cheers for that.

He had a big smirk on his face as I passed him while walking back down the platform to find a seat where I could comfortable while away the next 90 minutes. The fact that he'll probably be doing that for the rest of his life because he didn't try very hard at school was my only comforting thought.

They seem to like doing this on the circle line at Edgeware Road. You board a tube train that's marked Circle Line via King's Cross, get to Edgeware Road where it suddenly terminates and becomes a District Line going in the wrong direction! At which point you then have to scurry over the bridge to another platform to wait endlessly with hundreds of other people for the next Circle Line which is normally packed.

Maybe someone ought to tell them the clue is in the name - its a CIRCLE line therefore it goes ROUND.

Some of my normal trains home out of Liverpool Street can be nearly as bad. Not the sudden termination thing but not giving you the platform number until about 3 mins before its due to depart and then find out its down the wrong end of the platform with everyone sprinting to get it as they won't hold the damn thing.

> Some of my normal trains home out of Liverpool Street
> can be nearly as bad. Not the sudden termination
> thing but not giving you the platform number until
> about 3 mins before its due to depart and then find
> out its down the wrong end of the platform with
> everyone sprinting to get it as they won't hold the
> damn thing.
>

If the train leaves on time but empty it makes for far better statistics than if it leaves 4 minutes late full of fare-paying passengers, sorry, customers.

> > Sometimes I think that causing/allowing passengers to
> > miss train connections provides
> > amusement/entertainment to bored train staff.
> I wasn't changing trains at the time, but once I was
> trying to catch a train at Kings Cross station - in
> the little annex where platforms 9 and above live. I
> was the only person there, except for the server in
> the little coffee shop, and the station chap who
> blows his whistle and signals the trains departure. I
> was running. Fast. With a 15kg bag in each hand (was
> on my way home from Heathrow). The train was at the
> far end of the platform, behind another parked train.
> How far do you think I got down the platform before
> the uniformed **** sent the train off without me?
> That's right, approximately 6 inches from the first
> set of doors just to get a good close-up view of them
> closing. Cheers for that.
>
> He had a big smirk on his face as I passed him while
> walking back down the platform to find a seat where I
> could comfortable while away the next 90 minutes. The
> fact that he'll probably be doing that for the rest
> of his life because he didn't try very hard at school
> was my only comforting thought.

That may be the case but its also possible that he used to be like you and dropped out to have a much less stressful life, never judge a book by its cover.