Stopped Short

Bit of a shock this morning when my train stopped short at Bishop’s Stortford Station! Whole of the last carriage hadn’t actually arrived at the platform but the doors were still released. Good thing the train wasn’t crowded.

Surely the driver must have known they were short of the stopping point? They have screens at the end of the platform that show camera pictures from along the rest of the platform – if the train wasn’t aligned with these then it must have been clear to the driver that they had stopped short.