What on earth has happened to tube etiquette? I get that the Elizabeth line is more spacious than some other lines, but I had to push through a bunch of backpacks to get to a spot for myself – it would have been harder if the train was busier or I was more elderly.

There were far more, this was just a picture I could get without getting any faces in

by inside-outdoorsman

39 comments

  1. You poor soul. You made it though. That’s the main thing.

  2. I always take mine of. I just don’t see why you wouldn’t.

  3. bag off the back and use it as a pendulum so i don’t have to hold anything in the tube and my bag is not touching the floor.

  4. If it’s rammed bag on the floor. If it’s not then don’t. Hard to tell but from that picture looks like there’s plenty of space.

  5. It’s funny people take this like a personal attack instead of asking themselves if doing this would actually make people’s journeys better, heaven forbid we try to change our actions to help accommodate others.

  7. At what point in history did people on the tube consistently observe etiquette?

  8. Backpacks on the tube is my biggest pet peeve. It’s just considerate to take it off and makes it easier for others to get on and off the tube . There used to be a great platform guard at London Bridge tube who would make announcements telling people to remove their backpacks. It was great.

  9. As a shortarse, please take ’em off, a rucksack in the face is only second to be trapped under someone’s armpit.

  11. Pick pockets dream right there.

    Always between your legs people. It’s not just a courtesy.

  12. On the tube it seems that keeping backpacks in is now a thing. I don’t know why people have suddenly decided it’s okay to be really annoying, but it seems since COVID most tube etiquette has gone out the window.

    A new one I’ve noticed lately: keep rucksack on while sitting down so your arse is right on the edge & your knees extend out past the middle of the aisle making it very hard to get people to move down the aisle.

  13. also *cutting in line*! a guy rushed past me at waterloo this morning to make it onto a packed jubilee train when the next one was a minute later; and had about double the space.

  14. I always thought you put your bag on the floor. I think I may have needed to be told once at the start as a kid. I’m an Aussie who still lives in Melbourne for context.

  15. Would be nice to see some awareness campaign from TFL: see it, say it, bag on the floor.

  16. Bags on floor is just 1 notch away from shoes on in house within my household! I hold it down in front of me if standing or on my lap if sitting down. I imagine most people need both hands free so they can leer at their phone screen now-days.

  17. I got whacked in the face by someones backpack; while I was putting my backpack down on the floor.

  18. One dickhead this morning kept his bag on with his cycle helmet attached to that. Made himself a wrecking ball every time he moved

  19. Yes 101% on the floor or hold it in your hand.Nothing more annoying than a busy train with people rubbing their backpacks on you.

  20. I prefer it in front of me so I can see it, control it and not bother others. Would not put it on the floor. Holding it between the legs is sometimes too much for my arms.

  21. Always on the floor. Love ramming past these sorts of people.

  22. It’s bag on the tube floor

    Or you better let people move

    DJ

  24. It’s pissing me off, too. This morning a guy was wearing a flipping suitcase on his back.

  25. In Japan, most people wear their backpacks on the front when boarding the train to prevent this exact scenario. Bags in front makes backpackers more aware of the space they take up and helps backpackers keep an eye on their things, all without requiring anyone to put their things on a filthy floor to boot. Is that not a thing at all in the UK? Edit to add: Bags are handheld when the train is very full, of course.

  28. I personally feel anxious if it’s crowded and my bag is on my back, you don’t know if some 💩 head decides to ruffle in your bag (even though I usually have f all in there). My bag goes in held in front of my torso or on the hand I hold the rail with. When I’m sitting my bag goes on my lap, not on the floor.

  29. The weekly bags on the floor post. Who’s scheduled for the “let people off the train before boarding” post tomorrow?

  30. Not gonna put my bag on the floor!!! I wear it over front or hold it if it’s too rushed.

  31. To be fair mate from your photo theres enough room for people and their bags

  32. When it’s busy, walk through the rucksack to get off. The wearer then does an involuntary 180 as you pass through. Sadly I’ve never seen anyone react by removing it. Normally you just get a dopey look as they try to marshal sufficient brain cells to work out what just happened.

  35. If the bag is large enough you can steer the wearer with it and they can’t do anything about it because of the lever action. Do with this information what you will.

  36. The average quality of Londoners has been on the decline for a long long time.

  39. Just say “Scuse me” and push past em. 90% they will say sorry. They are not aware they are in the way.

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