Mind the gap! Bangkok BTS Skytrain startles passengers with open-door drama

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A video clip of a Bangkok BTS Skytrain running with one of its doors wide open left passengers and netizens shocked. The footage, which quickly spread around the world online, was captured on a BTS Skytrain in Thailand.

 

A TikTok user, under the account @star111042, shared the video, warning others not to stand or lean against the doors.

 

The video showed a BTS Skytrain running with one of its doors wide open, while a staff member stood nearby observing. The staff member then notified the train operator that the door remained open while the train was in motion until it arrived at Punnavithi Station.

The video ended by showing that the BTS Skytrain’s faulty door had been taken out of service with a sign in both Thai and English indicating that the door was malfunctioning, reported Sanook.

 

by Samantha Rose

Top Picture courtesy of @star111042 TikTok

 

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[JeffersLos]

Inferior German engineering. 

 

Not good like Thai engineering. 

[rbkk]

Just testing the staff preparedness for the Chinese High Speed trains?

[circa02]

I guess the emergency alarm didn't work either, doesn't seem to be slowing down in a hurry...

[Gottfrid]

1 hour ago, JeffersLos said:

Inferior German engineering. 

 

Not good like Thai engineering. 

Natural air conditioning

[OneMoreFarang]

Strange

With modern technology one would think the driver and some controller in some BTS office should know about this problem.

Was there an alarm?

Did anybody notice?

Why was the train not stopped? Intentionally?

[bendejo]

Thinking of people I have met who would say "But I like having the door open!"

 

[ThailandGuy]

Why does the train drive when the doors are not closed?  There should be a blocking mechanism. TIT

[Mr Meeseeks]

8 hours ago, JeffersLos said:

Inferior German engineering. 

 

Not good like Thai engineering. 

Better rescind the order for those sub engines then. ????

[still kicking]

What a heap of nonsense

[CygnusX1]

I’m old enough to remember riding on Sydney’s ‘red rattlers’, with the manually operated doors usually left wide open, and us boys competing to see who’d be the first to jump off as the train slowed to arrive at a station. We somehow all happily survived.

 

Now a single open door is treated as some kind of safety emergency, which “left passengers and netizens shocked”.

[swm59nj]

Kind of odd occurrence.  The trains should not be able move while any doors are open. 

[hotchilli]

13 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Strange

With modern technology one would think the driver and some controller in some BTS office should know about this problem.

Was there an alarm?

Did anybody notice?

Why was the train not stopped? Intentionally?

There is an alarm, 

no-one cared or was alarmed

a normal day at the office

life goes on.

[Deserted]

Was that train made by the Chinese?

[Dljohnt]

21 hours ago, JeffersLos said:

Inferior German engineering. 

 

Not good like Thai engineering. 

It seems to me that this is a Chinese build car. Maybe some German electrical system in it but for sure wired in China.

Besides that, it's not common for metro systems to make an emergency stop between stations. The danger of people getting out and walk on the tracks where they can get electrocuted from the high voltage 3th rail is bigger than someone falling out the car. So usually the train moves on to the next station where assistance can be offered.

[freeworld]

4 hours ago, Deserted said:

Was that train made by the Chinese?

Try harder maybe also the EU.

[freeworld]

5 hours ago, hotchilli said:

There is an alarm, 

no-one cared or was alarmed

a normal day at the office

life goes on.

There are alarms in all carriages and no humans had the gumption to sound the alarm but they did have the time to take photos and videos.

 

People expect everyone and everything to be managed minutely by govt with detailed instruction how to live their lives.

[Flying Saucage]

9 hours ago, CygnusX1 said:

I’m old enough to remember riding on Sydney’s ‘red rattlers’, with the manually operated doors usually left wide open, and us boys competing to see who’d be the first to jump off as the train slowed to arrive at a station. We somehow all happily survived.

 

Now a single open door is treated as some kind of safety emergency, which “left passengers and netizens shocked”.

Same with the old commuter trains in Berlin ('S-Bahn'), which were build in the 1930ths and in use till around 1995, and operated under control of the GDR's railway system. The passengers enjoyed a lot to open the doors, especially on hot summer days. It was completely normal to do this during these times.

[hotchilli]

28 minutes ago, freeworld said:

People expect everyone and everything to be managed minutely by govt with detailed instruction how to live their lives.

The doors are open and the train is moving, stand back, post it on social media... no problem.

Life goes on, things to do, places to be

This is Thailand... NOT Japan.

[Eaglekott]

Not the first time, it happened a few years ago also.

 

[Bangkok Barry]

And this has also happened before on the BTS.

[Sigmund]

Such dangerous situations occur on over relying on technology, be it in Thailand or any place else in the world.

[metisdead]

An off topic post in violation of our Community Standards has been removed.

[Caldera]

As there's a staff member present, they were already aware of the problem. Much ado about nothing?

 

They do warn not to lean against doors anyway. On every single train, at every single door.

[jacko45k]

On 9/21/2023 at 12:36 PM, JeffersLos said:

Inferior German engineering. 

 

Not good like Thai engineering. 

Another naughty jumper wire left on by the maintenance guys!

[digbeth]

A staff is seen in the video next to the door talking to the driver on the intercom next to the emergency stop lever

 

If it were done in nanny state gone mad, the train should have stopped, the track de-energized meaning trains in other direction stopped in case any idiot fall into the track from the open door and electrocuting themselves, passengers evacuated and walked back to the nearest station or have another train transfer them, or wait half an hour for an engineer to come and fix the door, making everyone stuck on the trains and commuters in other directions stopped too and whole day ruined. 

 

In a triumph of common sense, the staff see that the door is open and directed passengers to stay away from the door and presumably got it fixed at the next station 

 

I'd be mad if I'm stuck in the train because some Karn pulled the stop lever because the door was open

[metisdead]

A post with unsubstantiated claims in violation of our Community Standards and the replies have been removed.

[ravip]

Yes,  an open door on a moving BTS is not normal. None of us here know the exact reason for this incident. 

But, reading thru some posts, the Thai and Chinese bashings are very obvious. This world is not perfect. Technology can fail- it has happened before, happens now and will happen in the future. 

Remember a space ship exploded a couple of minutes after it was launched? 

Yes,  this is part of life - None of us are perfect. 

[ravip]

On 9/22/2023 at 8:55 AM, Flying Saucage said:

Same with the old commuter trains in Berlin ('S-Bahn'), which were build in the 1930ths and in use till around 1995, and operated under control of the GDR's railway system. The passengers enjoyed a lot to open the doors, especially on hot summer days. It was completely normal to do this during these times.

Yes. Times have changed. Today we can't ride a bicycle without a helmet and protective clothing (branded of course) even down a remote country road...

[JimTripper]

On 9/22/2023 at 1:17 AM, CygnusX1 said:

I’m old enough to remember riding on Sydney’s ‘red rattlers’, with the manually operated doors usually left wide open, and us boys competing to see who’d be the first to jump off as the train slowed to arrive at a station. We somehow all happily survived.

 

Now a single open door is treated as some kind of safety emergency, which “left passengers and netizens shocked”.

No a/c would be an emergency for most people these days!