It really isn’t the best idea unless you are genuinely scared for your or others immediate safety. Even then calling the train to a sudden halt between stations, possibly in a tunnel, and having to wait whilst the driver comes down the train to investigate and then reset the alarm and cause delays to everyone on the line is a pretty dim and selfish way to deal with someone annoying you.
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Precisely
I’d bet that if a harassed traveller loudly threatened to push the alarm a number of bystanders would quickly get involved.
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I would say if you are genuinely scared help can still more easily be given by the appropriate authorities at a station than on the track between. I have saved the BTP number in my phone so that I can always text to say what’s happening. To be honest the police boarding the train to remove someone at the station will also delay the train, if the thinking is that tfl needs to be encouraged to do more to avoid the disruption.
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