Stansted Airport Automated Transit

Описание: London Stansted Airport Automated Transit, Airport Gates To Terminal Building, Stansted Airport, Stansted, Essex.

Date Filmed: 10-04-2016

Most of the journey is undertaken underground and becomes overground on approach to the terminal building.
The whole transit transportation is fully automated.

It opened in 1991 and in 1998 the system was extended with an additional two underground stations. All the stations were equipped with Platform Screen Doors as seen from the train. The system is double track, with 3.2km (2 miles) of track in total and includes a maintenance depot at one end. The track gauge is 2.8m (9ft 2 in). The system contains elevated and tunneled sections (also said above) connecting the main terminal building with two satellite buildings, numbered 1 (gates 1-19) and 2 (gates 29-38).

There are an original five Adtranz C-100 cars built by Westinghouse for the system. This was increased to a total of nine cars when four new Bombardier CX-100 cars were delivered during the 1998 expansion. During normal operation, eight out of the nine cars will be in service. The cars can operate as single units or can be coupled to form two or three car trains. A single car was seen on arrival at the terminal building.

Handy track switching points are located at the terminal station and probably the other end as-well. Halogen lamps with arrows can be seen in the middle of the track. One can be seen upon arrival at the middle station and two others located at the track switch station.

The transit system is also fully equipped with on-board announcements.

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