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How do you board an invisible Orange Line train?
By adamg on Thu, 09/01/2016 - 4:54pm
Kerry Bond asks after glancing at the board that claims a train is in the station.
"Stealthily," Glenn Whidden recommends.
Paul MacMaster adds:
The worst part is walking into the side of the thing because you can't find the door.
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For a veteran of the T, this isn't that crazy
The second train is so close to the first train that it is slowed only by the signals. BRD Bly means the train is about to enter the station, while ARR means less than a minute away. I got burnt today by thinking that just because the sign said a train was due in 10 minutes there was no train at the platform. Naturally, when I got to the platform, the doors were closing.
On the other hand, I have encountered (but not seen) phantom trains.
You want to see crazy arrival signs
Check out the North Station Green Line westbound (inbound) platform. Sign will show C train arriving before E train. Then the E train magically arrives before the C train. Or sometimes the sign will read 'C train 3 stops away (even though the C line BEGINS at North Station)', and a C train arrives within 30 seconds.
And stating "Now Boarding" before the train is even on the platform, let alone with the doors open, is just plain idiotic.
But I guess that's what you get when people so easily settle for pointless bells and whistles instead of insisting management actually run more trains.
BRD ARR
Means that the train is delayed due to a pirate attack.
Boarding info
The train leaves Platform 9¾ without fail on 1 September at 11 o'clock in the morning.
You beat me to it!
You beat me to it!
I was going to remark that the photographer and the people in the photo are clearly Muggles (or "no-maj's", to use the ridiculous American word JKR invented). Not only can't they see the train, they're not even looking in the right spot!
Wonder Woman
managed to board with no problem.
Last night
About 6:15 was on the DTX platform heading north. The sign said arrival in 8 and 12 minutes. Lo and behold a half-empty train came into the station. One of the few pleasant surprises on the T.