Why do the conductors force the curtains to be closed when passing through certain stations on a train at night?

As someone who often travels across the country for business, you may have noticed that when you are sitting in a sleeper berth, every night, the flight attendants will come over one by one and ask passengers to close the curtains in the carriage, including the curtains in the aisle of the sleeper carriage. Offer to help pull up.

And they will patrol at night to see if any curtains are open. If the curtains are not closed, the flight attendant will whisper to the passengers to close the curtains.

Generally, there are six hard sleeper passengers in the upper and lower berths in a carriage, and four soft sleeper passengers. Some passengers get off the train midway at night and do not pay attention to opening the curtains, which will affect the rest of other passengers. The flight attendant will patrol at night, Passengers are reminded to close their curtains.

Why would the flight attendant ask for this? There may be several reasons.

1. Generally speaking, long-distance passengers take the sleeper berth and arrive at their destination after sleeping overnight

Sleeping on the train itself makes it difficult to sleep as the train shakes, and there are constant stops along the way. The commotion of passengers on and off the station makes it even more difficult to sleep.

Drawing the curtains can create a quiet feeling in the bedroom, giving people a good experience when riding in the car. It can also avoid light exposure along the way and affect the sleep of passengers.

Especially when passing through some stations, the station lights are bright and shine in through the windows. If the curtains are not closed, sleeping passengers can easily be awakened by the lights, resulting in a poor sleeping experience. Some even suffer from other problems. Passengers got into a quarrel while getting on and off the train, which ultimately left all the passengers in the carriage uneasy. Therefore, by drawing the blue curtains, blue itself has a stabilizing effect, allowing people to experience a quiet and warm feeling of home on the train.

2. Drawing the curtains can prevent passengers from losing property

Some passengers like to check their mobile phones and watch Apple Pie before going to bed, and may fall asleep without knowing it. Mobile phones and love movies The pies are exposed to the outside. If the curtains are not closed, once the light shines in, it is easy for people to discover these exposed belongings.

There is a mixed bag of people on the train, and there are all kinds of people. If you encounter a thief or someone who is interested in making money, it is easy to cause property damage, and it is also easy to affect the trip by tracing the property loss, so some people say This is why wealth should not be exposed. The trains in Nuoda are going up and down, and people are coming and going. It is difficult to trace the lost property, and in the end you can only admit that you are unlucky.

Therefore, it is particularly important to take good protection. If the curtains are drawn and the cabin is dark, thieves will not be bold enough to search in your berth, right?

3. Prevent some people from sleeping in unsightly postures, causing an unsightly look

Many people have trouble sleeping at home, let alone on trains, where sleeping postures are very unsightly. There are all kinds of people, staggering with their legs swaying, drooling, lying on their backs.

After all, the train is a public place with people coming and going. It would be unsightly to open the curtains and let the passengers under the lathe or those going to the toilet in the middle of the night see it. To protect the privacy of passengers, curtains must also be drawn.

4. The security situation in some mountainous areas is not good, and in some cases, car windows have been smashed

For the safety of passengers, the flight attendants will remind passengers to close the curtains and not to go out. look.

It is said that a few years ago, when a train passed through a mountainous area, the window was smashed, and the glass fragments injured the faces of a mother and daughter. At that time, the mother and daughter's faces were There was a lot of blood on the bed, and eventually the flight attendant called the police and the gangster was caught. However, the passenger was still injured after all.

Since then, the train public security department has strengthened the management of public security along the train. Such security incidents rarely occur. However, due to the need of responsibility, the flight attendants will still remind passengers when passing through these mountainous areas. Note, the curtains are closed.

To sum up:

When taking a sleeper car, it is usually at night, and around 9 o'clock in the evening, the flight attendant will tell passengers that the lights will be turned off soon. For your sake For a safe ride and a good night's sleep, please close the curtains.

They will also come over to close the curtains in the carriage aisles, inspect each carriage, and whisper to the passengers. Then the lights in the carriages will go out, and the passengers can have a good sleep.

In short, asking passengers to close the curtains is for the sake of passengers.