On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 16:16:49 UTC+1, David Cantrell wrote:
On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 08:32:37AM -0000, Recliner wrote:

They'd also have to fit driver's cabs, unless the Metro
switched to DLR-style ATO on its segregated tracks.

I'm sure I saw one of their trains running automatically into St James's
Park station when I was there a week and a bit ago. So unless my eyes
were deceiving me they've already got it, at least partially.

I really don't think it has. It is still working on the old signalling put in in the 1980s. Signalling and control is not part of the current Metro "all change" programme which runs until 2021.

I think Nexus want to replace parts of the signalling and control system along with the rolling stock fleet but there would be very little to gain from ATO on the Metro. There is no demand for anything approaching 1-2 (or better) minute headways anywhere on the network. Service levels now are worse than they were in 1984 when the original core network opened. As said elsewhere the interworking with NR heavy rail east of Pelaw to Sunderland complicates matters hugely.

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