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All across the Great Western territory => The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom => Topic started by: SandTEngineer on May 04, 2019, 17:20:06



Title: New Trains for Glasgow Underground
Post by: SandTEngineer on May 04, 2019, 17:20:06
These new trains are going to operate without any onboard staff, a UK first: https://t.co/9XPplDKNRS


Title: Re: New Trains for Glasgow Underground
Post by: eightonedee on May 04, 2019, 19:57:54
....just 33 years after Vancouver's Sky Train!


Title: Re: New Trains for Glasgow Underground
Post by: JayMac on May 04, 2019, 20:58:29
These new trains are going to operate without any onboard staff, a UK first: https://t.co/9XPplDKNRS

What about the Birmingham Airport and Gatwick Airport rail shuttles?


Title: Re: New Trains for Glasgow Underground
Post by: grahame on May 04, 2019, 21:16:07
These new trains are going to operate without any onboard staff, a UK first: https://t.co/9XPplDKNRS

What about the Birmingham Airport and Gatwick Airport rail shuttles?

Docklands Light Railway?   Isn't the incline lift at Greenford a rail way (but is the lift a train?)


Title: Re: New Trains for Glasgow Underground
Post by: JayMac on May 04, 2019, 21:17:13
All DLR trains have a member of staff onboard.


Title: Re: New Trains for Glasgow Underground
Post by: SandTEngineer on May 05, 2019, 09:14:14
These new trains are going to operate without any onboard staff, a UK first: https://t.co/9XPplDKNRS

What about the Birmingham Airport and Gatwick Airport rail shuttles?

Are they not 'People Movers' rather than railways though, BNM?


Title: Re: New Trains for Glasgow Underground
Post by: JayMac on May 05, 2019, 15:29:43
Aren't heavy rail passenger trains also people movers? :P



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