Recliner wrote on 10 October 2014 21:21:27 ...
Paul Corfield wrote:
On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:07:08 +0100, "tim....."
wrote:


I can't speak for anywhere else, but the open air stations in Copenhagen
don't have platform doors

and it's colder than here in the winter

I understood that Copenhagen had taken the decision to install them to
reduce delays from things ending up on the track and the auto
detection system stopping trains unncessarily. I agree that their
climate will provide a challenge to operating platform edge doors in
snowy / cold conditions but then they are more likely to be better
prepared than us to deal with such conditions.

Given that the JLE only has PEDs on the new underground stations, I assumed
the same would be true on other lines?

The JLE had PEDs installed primarily in order to reduce the number of
ventilation shafts, as the PEDs shield the waiting passengers from
excessive air flows through the station tunnels. Their use in order to
improve the safety of driverless trains is a separate issue. The DLR
manages to avoid having PEDs, so it's not necessarily essential to have
them before you introduce driverless trains.
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