"Doors are closing"

[muckefuck]

Many mass transit systems have some sort of conventional announcement (either pre-recorded or recited by the conductor) that is heard when the doors to a train are closing. What ones have you heard? Here in Chicago, the message used to be, "Watch the doors, doors are closing" but when they switched to pre-recorded announcements it was shortened to

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[lareinemisere]

I'm used to hearing 'This train is ready to depart. Stand away from the doors, please' on London Transport. It's then followed by a couple of seconds of a really annoying noise, which the vast majority of Londoners take as a cue to run to get on the train...

[ffutures]

More often "Please stand clear of the doors," I think.

[maju01]

One that I've heard but I don't remember where (could be either the the DC area in the US or Perth, Australia) is "Please stand clear. The doors are about to close."

[shanrina]

In the DC area, it used to be "Doors closing," but they changed it a few years ago to "Step back. Doors closing."

[ms_cucumber]

NYC: "Stand clear of the closing doors."

ETA: Hmm, there might be a "please" at the end there. Ha, yeah, there is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbRlJMk4LUs

[conuly]

I miss the plain beep boop.

[kleios_kiss]

Sometimes you get both!

I also like the lady who announces "The B as in Brothel train is approaching," although I guess that's not super relevant.

[kleios_kiss]

Also I once heard on the R train "Next stop: the stop formerly known as Prince Street" or something to that sort. Made me laugh. I love our conductors.

[antrazi]

I mostly hear either "Türen schliessen" German for "Doors closing" or a specific repeated signal tone that means the same.

[rheasilvia]

I usually hear "Bitte einsteigen, Türen schließen selbsttätig" (Please get on, the doors close / are closing automatically).

[anicca_anicca2]

Yep, and that's in Deutsche Bahn trains, i.e. regional and national trains. I can't remember what it used to be before that.

[lied_ohne_worte]

Yes, that is the one I was going to quote. And "selbsttätig" is really a stupid word, the more I think about it. I remember it being in school tests - "Bitte bestimmen Sie selbsttätig [XY]", and it was silly then too. It's not as if anyone else is going to do that test, after all!