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Re: Video showing Paris Metro Line 1 headway |
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Posted by Fytton on Wed Feb 10 05:48:30 2010, in response to Re: Video showing Paris Metro Line 1 headway, posted by N6 Limited on Tue Feb 9 19:18:29 2010. 'If they are ATO who's at the front of the train?'The trains are OPTO, so it is the 'one person'. You can think of him/her as a T/O or a C/R according to taste. ATO doesn't automatically mean ZPTO. Line 14 in Paris is ZPTO because it was built new as such, but the other lines renmain to be comverted to ZPTO. In London, the Victoria Line (opened 1967) was ATO from day one, but it still has a person at the front of the train; the public thinks of this person as the driver, but their function is really more like a C/R. The Docklands Light Railway has no driving cabs but there is a staff member on each train - originally these were called rather grandly 'Train Captain' but now they have the more modest title of 'Passenger Service Agent' (PSA). They can, and sometimes do, drive the train from the left-hand pair of 'railfan seats' at the front of the train, but normally they roam the train and all the railfan seats are available to the public. (The doors can be controlled both from the front position and from buttons above the doors.) I think that the reason TfL doesn't go ZPTO is for reassurance of the public. Presumably Parisians on Line 14 aren't thought to need such reassurance (8-) ! |
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