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Old December 4th 09, 09:23 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default DLR Train Captain Texting Whilst 'Driving'

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Neil Williams wrote:

On 03 Dec 2009 20:10:57 GMT, Matthew Geier
wrote:

And they run fully automatic with no on train staff OR platform staff
and there are no platform screen doors. They run through dense
residential 'towns'


One of the curious features of them as a result is that the windows are
actually LCD panels, and are automatically blanked when it passes close
to apartment buildings.


Was this cheaper than fences?

tom

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