Mind The Gap

by Joan Carroll

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16.000 x 9.000 inches

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Mind The Gap

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Joan Carroll

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Photograph - Digital Photograph

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Mind The Gap is one phrase Americans like to joke about when visiting London and while it is (or should be!) immediately obvious what it refers to, it turns out there is a whole Wikipedia page devoted to it! Who knew there was so much to know about minding the gap. "Mind the gap" is a warning to train passengers to take caution while crossing the gap between the train door and the station platform. It was introduced in 1969 on the London Underground. The phrase is also associated with t-shirts that Transport for London sells featuring the phrase printed over a London Transport symbol. Because some platforms on the Underground are curved and the rolling stock that uses them are straight, an unsafe gap is created when a straight car stops at a curved platform. In the absence of a device to automatically fill the gap some form of visual and auditory warning was needed to prevent passengers from being caught unaware and suffering injury by stepping into the wide gap. The phrase "mind the gap" was chosen for this purpose and can be found painted along the edges of curved platforms as well as via a recorded announcement played when a train arrives. The recording is also used where platforms are non-standard height. Deep-level tube trains have a floor height around 200 mm (8 inches) less than sub-surface stock trains. Where trains share platforms, for example some Piccadilly Line (tube) and District Line (sub-surface) stations, the platform is a compromise.

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September 12th, 2013

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