Re: Driverless trains in USA

["Rjaygee" <dartmouthmotel@bigpond.com>]

Last October I travelled on BART and it is a very impressive system although
they are seeing the limitations of choosing the 5' 6" gauge (I think it is
as it looks wider than Victorian BG) due to the fact that extensions onto
existing standard gauge is difficult.  I believe there are plans to extend
it at the southern end using some existing right of way but the present
owners of the ROW do not want to pay for broad gauge or dual gauge.  Someone
in Sanfrancisco said they might condsider changing the lot to Std Gauge.
Cheers
Rod Gayford

"Geoff Lillico" <glillic@msn.com.au> wrote in message
news:sYex6.6417$45.37347@newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
> Whilst I did not see the programme on the History Channel [I will try for
a
> repeat], you can bet that like other HC programmes, they said very little
if
> anything about automatic trains other than the USA BART system. One day US
> produced programmes might admit that the world does not end at the
Atlantic
> and Pacific Oceans!
>
> There are many examples of "driverless" trains in the world, Singapore for
> one.
>
> --
> Geoff Lillico
>
> "Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> news:6P8x6.37$MM.2523@ozemail.com.au...
> > Sounds just like BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) - see
http://www.bart.gov/
> for
> > current details and history.
> >
> > BART trains have been driverless from day one but I thought they had
> someone
> > up front (if not from day one then very soon after) for some functions
> such as
> > door opening (?), closing and to ok departure.
> >
> > Unfortunately BART suffered from being overly ambitious technologically.
> > Until fairly recently the automatic train control couldn't achieve
> headways as
> > close as 3 minutes which was a significant constraint on the trans-bay
> tube
> > traffic.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > Billy The Kid <Leave@anoteonmyTimesheet.com> wrote in message
> > news:3AC50603.CB5F5CD2@anoteonmyTimesheet.com...
> > > I saw a documentry on The History channel and it had a segment on the
> > > San Francisco system. Right from the start in 1972 they had no drivers
> > > or guards and all the trains are controlled from a central control
room.
> > > They have since added a guy up front for decoration. Does this mean in
> > > years to come that the only guys on Sydney trains will be the Chubb
guys
> > > who hide up the back of the train.
> > >
> >
> >
>
>