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Old September 20th 06, 05:20 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Rupert Candy Rupert Candy is offline
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Default Driverless trains installed at Terminal 5


Clive Coleman. wrote:
In message , John Rowland
writes
"Six 15t automated cars, each with a capacity to carry up to 75 passengers,
have been delicately lowered by crane down a 12m shaft into the tunnel
system of T5's tracked transit system (TTS), ready for commissioning. "

I would guess the idea is similar to the driverless trains that feed
Kennedy Airport NY?


....or the Westinghouse-built systems at Stansted and Gatwick. (Though
the article says this system has been built by Bombardier.)