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Door User Interface
Door leading from a passenger cabin on a train. Journey times range from 30 to 90+ hours.
Where does the door lead?
What it is are the green and red buttons for?
Writing from Mongolia | December 9, 2005 | Permalink
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30- 90 hours is a long time to be beguiled by a strange door interface - I hope you worked out what it meant in the end!
I would assume that the green and red 'button' is rather a push/pop indicator of vacancy for a room that is lockable (for private use). Also I would assume that the primary lock is operated from the inside; with that metallic looking nut below the green button being an external override in case the inside lock didn't work. Therefore I would deduct that this is a toilet. Is this correct?
Posted by: Nathan Waterhouse at December 13, 2005 12:47 AM
You're correct on some but not all of these assumptions. It's not a toilet.
I took a journey of 30 hours, but the train is more typically used for the much longer journey of - Beijing to Moscow.
Posted by: Jan at December 13, 2005 6:52 AM