' Even buggies are pushed between the closing doors '

Conductors signaling that a large part of the travelers even get in after hearing the whistle. "That distort the whole departure process," says Xander Philips, Chief conductor of the NS. He is almost sixteen years working as a conductor and makes every day that there are people between the closing train doors by trying to jump.

Departure procedure "people do not realize well that the time on the Board, the departure time is. The time on the clock is not the latest entry level time. " The departure process starts for about twenty seconds before that moment. "You check than as conductor or the travelers have already joined, close the doors and then blows the whistle to indicate that the train leaves."

But those seconds use the train often latecomers to jump in. "People pick up last-minute the weirdest antics. By foot, to stroller in the door. " Potentially dangerous, he says. And it may cause unnecessary delay.

The situation is for conductors very apparent, according to the survey. "Often as the doors close wringing travelers still inside. Worse still, are regularly kept open the doors with force longer time to still other travellers in to start, "said one of the respondents.

Delay another conductor describes a specific, recent situation: "a man kept the doors open for his wife who still ran up the stairs. The man fell and came with his foot in the door. Other travelers beat therefore in panic the emergency glass in. That led in the middle of rush hour to twelve-minute delay on Utrecht Central. "

71 percent of the conductors says several times a day unnecessary delay because a traveller after the whistle boarding.

Responsibility "as a conductor you surely want to guarantee the safety and the drive train on time, but you hope that travelers want to take a responsibility in there as well," said Philips. "Fortunately, you see it as conductor, often at the last moment as people there still indented. You interrupt the procedure. But it leads to undue delay immediately. "

The NS wants the number of ' instappers ' slashed and calls, therefore, on the traveller. Since last week, is an awareness-raising campaign started. On drives hang posters with the text "from now on: flutes = no more boarding".

By: Editorial NOS: Photo: REUTERS