Mizter T wrote:
Paul Corfield wrote:

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On the DLR the computers run the trains so that Stratford / Beckton
trains connect effortlessly at Poplar - very helpful and that shows you
what can be achieved with a modern and reliable system. It wasn't always
like that in the early days of the current signalling system!

There may have been signalling but there wasn't much of a system!

The image of the DLR has changed so much. I remember it being
continually referred to as the 'Toytown Railway' in it's first few
halting years.


I remember the first ever day of the DLR in ... about July 1987 was it?
We got a few hundred yards from Stratford and then got stuck for a
while. Everyone laughed. I remember thinking "I bet that's the last
time everyone will laugh when it breaks down".