I was a member of the team that built the DLR in the mid-1980s, back when it was called the "Toy Train". It's great to see that DLR has evolved into a proper transit system.
DLR is my favourite. The existing model is not great, bumpy ride. But fast acceleration, autonomous, clean. It's still lacking a premium feel though, both the new one and the old one. Perhaps it's to keep the weight of it minimum, and keep the structure as thin as possible. Still very toy like, but an advanced and efficient one.
Front seat driving vital and glad that has been kept. My youngest once ended up next to the Captain driving on manual and was thanked with a hand shake for helping to driver the train. Made her day!
I am going to miss the old trains but then I miss the DLR from the 80s when it stopped in the middle of the dock for Canary Wharf and there was no station there. 😃
@@markusknight This is what I came to the comments to ask. For a non-Londoner, I use the DLR quite a lot and the current stock seems perfectly serviceable (if a little juddery but that seems like something that's intrinsic to light railways). Don't get me wrong - new stock is great - I was just a little surprised it was seen as a priority.
Thank you for showing the wheelchair area and also massive thanks for having human written subtitles. I’m both a wheelchair user and deaf and subtitles that aren’t auto be treated make a MASSIVE difference!
One of the best things about all of this has to be the new colour scheme. It finally matches the DLR's line colour! Harmonising the grab pole and moquette colours with the line's map colour should really be standard on all TfL services. Hopefully they refresh the B07's livery and moquette to match. The screens for route maps are a big improvement too, no more cluttered full network map showing all the DLR routes, just an easy to see screen that'll clearly show you what service you're on. Looks great.
I still remember when the DLR was first introduced, the new platform at Stratford, to be told the trains are now 30 years old reminds me of my age! The DLR (dinky little railway) is a great rail network that could grace many smaller cities and not be out of place ... to think it covers just a small section of London is phenominal thought.
Yeah, I feel like DLR is a thing that should be expanded. Maybe not as one network, but separate routes in different areas to connect the existing rail
It was a pioneer of the automated light metro, which has been replicated in various cities over the years, and has seen a recent uptick in interest as automation technology has improved. Even big cities are considering them, as the ability to have tiny headways measured in seconds means to increase capacity, you can just keep adding more vehicles, which is often cheaper than extending station platforms for longer vehicles or adding more track.
@@li_tsz_fung It'd be a nice idea to link SE London services. Too much reliance on buses down there - If the DLR could get us to the Thameslink and Overground stations more easily, then that'd be a great way to avoid buses & Southern Rail. Also to link some of the Southern and South Eastern stations that also require a bus or taxi for some journeys.
Just on the subject of PA, I was in a large city somewhere in South Germany (or maybe Austria) recently and on the buses, they had got local schoolchildren to record the bus-stop announcements. Each schoolchild got their "own" bus-stop to announce. They did it very well and it was tremendously endearing.
Yup. Even as someone who hopes to never need them it’s great to see them explicitly acknowledged. As honestly? We’ll all need these various accessibility things at some point in our life.
Yes, as someone who recently has had to make more use of grab handles at doors etc., it's good to see. I use suburban SWR services a lot and some of the platform gaps, which i used to take for granted are now quite difficult. Raynes Pk. and Epsom spring to mind.
I am so excited! The DLR is my second favourite TfL mode after the Elizabeth Line! I am super happy to be going back to London next week to ride more trains!
As a Finnish person who's lived in London for 25 years (how did that happen?), this video was a blast of joyful of Britishness that has, at times, been hard to remember. The bit in the video about the popularity of being able to be in the driver's seat: a sheer delight! 🚈
Wow, solid 5 star video as always Geoff. I use the DLR every week between twice and 4 times on my commutes and these new trains look absolutely fantastic, I cannot wait to try these in 2024! Bring it on already 😂 keep up the awesome videos 😁👍
Some of my best nights commuting back home in my London days were talking to the engaging and knowledgeable PSAs on the DLR who would explain how the system worked, what its good points were and its limitations. During the upgrades for the 2012 Olympics a lot of changes took place which required the operator to manually override some of the automated features to get the train to start and stop where it was supposed to, so we saw a lot of manual driving happening in these years. These men and women who oversee the DLR have my respect for the comparatively customer-steeped and hands-on role they have in London's transport network.
They look much more like regular Underground trains inside than the light rail style existing stock. Does seem quite spacious, and pleasing to see they've managed to retain the forward view with all these modern crashworthiness requirements to have to worry about
Excellent video Geoff. However you made me feel very old when you said the B92 stock have been in service for 30 years! As a young engineer I was sent to Bruges to witness factory acceptance testing of the B90 vehicles at the BN plant and spent the best part of a week riding the first train up and down BN’s test track in weather very similar to that in your video.
The new DLR trains will be lot better as people would walk through the whole entire 6-Car. Which is a great idea to have walkthrough passageways on metro trains and light rail trains. I be looking forward to seeing these new trains coming into service from next year.
Hi Geoff! Well they are a great upgrade by the looks of it. Like the look of the windows and the general layout of the new unit interior. The colour lights are a nice touch because obviously the sounds are no good for deaf passengers. And most important, I like teal 😂 I shall be using the old 92 stock again tomorrow. Seems odd that this will soon be consigned to history, but then it felt odd when the original trains were suddenly no longer there I guess 🤔 Cheers mate, have a great weekend 🍀🍻👍
@@nathanw9770 yeah man it happened to me twice when my uncle used to take me out, and then years later in about 2013, my son also got to experience the tradition 😎
You are smiling throughout this entire video which makes me smile too! Such an entertaining, fun and informative video. Thanks for sharing!! I'm looking forward to riding myself on the DLR when I'm in London later this year, even if it'll be in the older train model.
Quite handy for those of us not so steady on our pins too. Let alone those of us who are functionally one handed, I can now use the DLR without everyone assuming I'm drunk, might even be handy when I am drunk.
The color scheme is refreshing, but one has to worry how both shades will weather over the next 30 years. Dirt and muck will definitely show up on the cream-colored parts. Thanks, Geoff, for giving us such informative content.
I saw these trains on the news the other day. I also saw these trains online last year they look very good. I can't wait for these train to come into service. R.I.P. old DLR trains
When I was a kid, we went to New York (1972 ish?). The layout of these new trains remind me of the New York Subway of that time. Big difference, however, was that the seats down the length were hard plastic and very few arm rests. If the subway train braked sharply, everyone slid down the seats to be bunched up together. For a kid, it was hysterical! Our trains at the time had the deep, cushioned seats on the Northern Line, so the US trains felt very primitive.
Hmm they look nice but i dont really like sitting sideways as it sometimes makes me feel a bit queasy when outside. Kinda wish they'd have more forward facing seats as I can see lots of pushing for the front/back at rush hours :/
I'm glad I am not the only person totally in favour of using Transverse seating. There are an awful lot of tourists visiting London and riding the DLR is a big attraction. Where's the attraction if all you can do is sit facing the stranger looking at you from the other side of the train when wonderful London views are passing by you.
Catching up with my subscriptions and happily saw this one. Although, then also just saw the "New train vandalism" story! (Breaking news just after 13:00 on 27/02/23) Loving that new moquette. :-) PS - was lovely randomly bumping into you over the weekend Geoff! :-) Second UA-camr I follow with the bell on that I now know in real life!
I still remember the first time I rode on the DLR, I got so excited I shouted a 'they're REMOTE CONTROL!?' couldn't remember the word automated... embarrassingly I was 17 😅 7yrs later I still get a lil kick out of sitting at the front even though I've now lived here for 6yrs. As always fab video Geoff
I don't know... I much prefer the current ones. I hope these new ones are gonna keep the red colour of the old ones, otherwise they look a bit bland. I'm MASSIVELY happy that they've kept the front seats! Wahey!!!
The two comments above are SCAMS do not interact with them. I can finally say after a year or two, I've gotten one of these in reply to my comment. Took long enough 🤣
When they delivered it last month, they told us not to photograph it or post it online as it would spoil the reveal. We all laughed because who would actually care that much. Then we found out how many people turned up to see it. Madness. You are right, it's called DLR turquoise by TFL. (#368EA4 or 54 142 164). I'm glad they finally went for the turquoise because the red and blue livery made no sense at all. The door position move was good because the old stock have the live rail pick up shoes directly below the doors which is why we had to put in shoe protection on the platform side through all platforms. I believe the bogey spacing is a bit longer than the old stock which will reduce end throw but increase centre throw slightly. Most importantly, it'll reduce gapping in some areas of the railway which can reduce the life span of some ramp ends. Interesting to see that the new control panel lid lifts up and tucks down behind the console. The old version hinged from the side and got in the way a bit. We were convinced that Bombardier were going to get the contract but CAF have done a great job. It looked good on the short and secret journey it made 1 night and passed all the depot tolerances with no issues.
This is amazing- I wish Golders Green was this good, that station needs a complete overhaul in terms of accessibility. I’d be grateful if you could help Geoff.
The old B92 stock trains are called 3-car trains because they are made of 3 articulated cars. They cannot be divided into smaller units because of the wheel distribution. They have 3 bogeys each, and the middle one (a Jacobs-bogey) is right under the joint, supporting both segments of the car. You cannot uncouple it, so it is one car. While the new trains' various systems were designed for a constant 5-segment unit, technically they can be uncoupled at the joints, because all the segments are supported by individual bogeys. It's hard to say if that makes them trains of 5 single cars, or a single car of 5 segments.
In argentina we tend to name the "groups" of trains. If a train has 5 coaches, composed of an EMU of 3 and 2 cars, for example, we called the individual EMUs Triplets and Douplex
I remember looking at those control panels when there was no room to look anywhere else thinking it must be “Close this door” and “close other doors”, glad to have that confirmed a few years later!
Okay this is super turbo nerdy, but when you were wondering what colour the grab poles are I immediately thought of Tokyo Subway! The Namboku line on Tokyo Metro is teal coloured which I believe was one of your options. Comparing the grab poles to the colour on Wikipedia, (which is not very scientific, I'll grant you) the poles seem darker than the colour on the Namboku line so maybe Jade is the right colour
All we need now is New Northern, Victoria, Circle (Metropolitan, Hammersmith And city lines) and Waterloo trains after DLR & picadilly lines have been completed. Also new station safety doors, regeneration
I'm honestly going to miss the old designs. Essen in Germany, where the original p86 and p89 DLR rolling stock ended up being used as subway/tram vehicles is also planning to replace them this year. Maybe the ride will be smoother.
I thought with the extant DLR trains the DLR staff referred to one articulated pair as a “vehicle”, so we have 2 vehicle DLRs here at Beckton Park currently
Those wheelchair priority areas need to be put in every train. I know the trains have like foldable chairs but there should be a proper dedicated one like the DLR one
Looks great. However, it means I need to prioritise the DLR this year, and hunt out as many of the B90/B92 units to ride as I can (my current total is 11 out of 70).
The colour of the interiors and the DLR logo colour is pretty much the same as what you would find on a Sydney Metro Train set the ones that operate at the moment between Tallawong and Chatswood in NSW Geoff. however next year Stage 2 of The Sydney Metro from Chatswood to Bankstown is due to open next year where they will eventually run from Tallawong all the way through Sydney's Central station and out to Bankstown.
I must say I really like the external colour scheme and I reckon it would look great on Overground and Underground trains too (replace the teal with orange and red respectively).
I remember the london Titan buses when I was small back in the 80’s they used to have like purple lights at front of the bus downstairs that is what the d.l.r reminds me with their light green at the front of the car.
Petition for Geoff to become the new voice of the new DLR train announcements! 😁
I second this motion
He deserves it!
I second this motion.
I had written the same thing nly to ind you beat me to it. !
He’s already had his voice announced on the Thameslink, I wouldn’t mind that for sure! 😂
Great questions Geoff! Looks like quite the slick train, much more underground and much less light railway.
Love watching your vids man!
I was a member of the team that built the DLR in the mid-1980s, back when it was called the "Toy Train". It's great to see that DLR has evolved into a proper transit system.
Still behaves like a roller coaster going from Poplar into Canary Wharf though!
@@markwalker5723 The original DLR had an at-grade level junction there, and there were a few minor collisions. The flyover eliminated that.
Did you know Mike Burton?
DLR is my favourite. The existing model is not great, bumpy ride. But fast acceleration, autonomous, clean.
It's still lacking a premium feel though, both the new one and the old one. Perhaps it's to keep the weight of it minimum, and keep the structure as thin as possible. Still very toy like, but an advanced and efficient one.
The Toy Train 😃
Front seat driving vital and glad that has been kept. My youngest once ended up next to the Captain driving on manual and was thanked with a hand shake for helping to driver the train. Made her day!
Note that their is only one row of forward-facing seats, now, as opposed to the two in the 92s!
Haven't been called Captains for 30 years
I never knew that TFL had been planning to introduce new stocks to the DLR this whole time. What a surprise!
Me neither
Yeah, I didn't realise it until about a week or two ago myself! They kept it quiet.
I am going to miss the old trains but then I miss the DLR from the 80s when it stopped in the middle of the dock for Canary Wharf and there was no station there. 😃
I’ve never felt like the current stock needed replacing as an occasional traveler on the DLR and only now learnt they are from 1992. 😮
@@markusknight This is what I came to the comments to ask. For a non-Londoner, I use the DLR quite a lot and the current stock seems perfectly serviceable (if a little juddery but that seems like something that's intrinsic to light railways). Don't get me wrong - new stock is great - I was just a little surprised it was seen as a priority.
Thank you for showing the wheelchair area and also massive thanks for having human written subtitles. I’m both a wheelchair user and deaf and subtitles that aren’t auto be treated make a MASSIVE difference!
One of the best things about all of this has to be the new colour scheme. It finally matches the DLR's line colour! Harmonising the grab pole and moquette colours with the line's map colour should really be standard on all TfL services. Hopefully they refresh the B07's livery and moquette to match. The screens for route maps are a big improvement too, no more cluttered full network map showing all the DLR routes, just an easy to see screen that'll clearly show you what service you're on. Looks great.
honestly, it looks pretty bland and corporate, i enjoyed the waves and the red livery a lot more
@@khidorahian Yeah, IMO Blue on Red stripe was the peak livery design
@@jess.hawkins I would just reverse the colours, make the white and teal the main, but keep some of the red waviness
@@khidorahian i agree
That was the whole point of the decor, to make it reflective of its route...
I still remember when the DLR was first introduced, the new platform at Stratford, to be told the trains are now 30 years old reminds me of my age! The DLR (dinky little railway) is a great rail network that could grace many smaller cities and not be out of place ... to think it covers just a small section of London is phenominal thought.
Yeah, I feel like DLR is a thing that should be expanded. Maybe not as one network, but separate routes in different areas to connect the existing rail
It was a pioneer of the automated light metro, which has been replicated in various cities over the years, and has seen a recent uptick in interest as automation technology has improved. Even big cities are considering them, as the ability to have tiny headways measured in seconds means to increase capacity, you can just keep adding more vehicles, which is often cheaper than extending station platforms for longer vehicles or adding more track.
@@li_tsz_fung
It'd be a nice idea to link SE London services.
Too much reliance on buses down there - If the DLR could get us to the Thameslink and Overground stations more easily, then that'd be a great way to avoid buses & Southern Rail.
Also to link some of the Southern and South Eastern stations that also require a bus or taxi for some journeys.
Geoff can do any kind of a cinematic shots and still make it look banging. Great Video as always Geoff
i can second this!
Hi Geoff marshal I’m Raiyan
Just on the subject of PA, I was in a large city somewhere in South Germany (or maybe Austria) recently and on the buses, they had got local schoolchildren to record the bus-stop announcements. Each schoolchild got their "own" bus-stop to announce. They did it very well and it was tremendously endearing.
I love how much attention you give to accessibility in your videos, keep it up!
Yup. Even as someone who hopes to never need them it’s great to see them explicitly acknowledged. As honestly? We’ll all need these various accessibility things at some point in our life.
Yes, as someone who recently has had to make more use of grab handles at doors etc., it's good to see. I use suburban SWR services a lot and some of the platform gaps, which i used to take for granted are now quite difficult. Raynes Pk. and Epsom spring to mind.
@@Flyworley EXTEND DLR to Waterloo Station🎉🎉
I'm just so happy the livery finally matches the colour scheme of the DLR. I can die happy.
I am so excited! The DLR is my second favourite TfL mode after the Elizabeth Line! I am super happy to be going back to London next week to ride more trains!
Sounds exciting, new trains are always cool and modern
Thanks
very kind, thank you!
As a Finnish person who's lived in London for 25 years (how did that happen?), this video was a blast of joyful of Britishness that has, at times, been hard to remember. The bit in the video about the popularity of being able to be in the driver's seat: a sheer delight! 🚈
Wow, solid 5 star video as always Geoff. I use the DLR every week between twice and 4 times on my commutes and these new trains look absolutely fantastic, I cannot wait to try these in 2024! Bring it on already 😂 keep up the awesome videos 😁👍
"Can you text him back and ask him what the RGB values are?" - Geoff asking the important questions as always.
Some of my best nights commuting back home in my London days were talking to the engaging and knowledgeable PSAs on the DLR who would explain how the system worked, what its good points were and its limitations. During the upgrades for the 2012 Olympics a lot of changes took place which required the operator to manually override some of the automated features to get the train to start and stop where it was supposed to, so we saw a lot of manual driving happening in these years.
These men and women who oversee the DLR have my respect for the comparatively customer-steeped and hands-on role they have in London's transport network.
Men and Women? TfL recognise 57 other genders don't you know
Those real time screens should be in all trains honestly, like with the overground and elizabeth line- it would really help in the tube
The 2+2 seating will always be iconic for the existing trains.
Absolutely thrilled there’s some progress in the domain of accessibility.
Still no progress. a year later
Always a good time when Geoff uploads
They look much more like regular Underground trains inside than the light rail style existing stock. Does seem quite spacious, and pleasing to see they've managed to retain the forward view with all these modern crashworthiness requirements to have to worry about
Excellent video Geoff. However you made me feel very old when you said the B92 stock have been in service for 30 years! As a young engineer I was sent to Bruges to witness factory acceptance testing of the B90 vehicles at the BN plant and spent the best part of a week riding the first train up and down BN’s test track in weather very similar to that in your video.
The new DLR trains will be lot better as people would walk through the whole entire 6-Car. Which is a great idea to have walkthrough passageways on metro trains and light rail trains. I be looking forward to seeing these new trains coming into service from next year.
Hi Geoff!
Well they are a great upgrade by the looks of it. Like the look of the windows and the general layout of the new unit interior. The colour lights are a nice touch because obviously the sounds are no good for deaf passengers. And most important, I like teal 😂
I shall be using the old 92 stock again tomorrow. Seems odd that this will soon be consigned to history, but then it felt odd when the original trains were suddenly no longer there I guess 🤔
Cheers mate, have a great weekend 🍀🍻👍
Given the Twitter Coverage around this and the fact that I’m IN LOVE with new (teal, not turquoise) Moquette, I had to tap the notification.
These do look nice! Love the moquette as well, and hopefully they will make the DLR nicer!
Nice video Geoff as always! (Those DLR Trains look so cool
Great video Geoff! You should definitely be the voice of the new DLR trains.
It's taken me far too long to watch this. Love it, Geoff. We love DLR!
I was at the depot and met Geoff! I can even see myself in the video several times! He was so lovely!
If you’re born in the 90s or afterwards, you may have sweet memories of the staff letting us “drive” the dlr 😌💭💭
I remember one of the staff let me do that when I was about 5 or so in the mid 2000's. One of my best memories of the DLR.
@@nathanw9770 yeah man it happened to me twice when my uncle used to take me out, and then years later in about 2013, my son also got to experience the tradition 😎
You're*
You can still sit in the front if you can get it, All you need to do is move out of the way upon request if the staff need it.
You are smiling throughout this entire video which makes me smile too! Such an entertaining, fun and informative video. Thanks for sharing!!
I'm looking forward to riding myself on the DLR when I'm in London later this year, even if it'll be in the older train model.
4:14 one of the most underrated aspects of public transport (especially for long-armed individuals like myself)
Quite handy for those of us not so steady on our pins too. Let alone those of us who are functionally one handed, I can now use the DLR without everyone assuming I'm drunk, might even be handy when I am drunk.
Another wonderful video, Geoff you're a legend mate, keep up the excellent work 👍😎
Very good. Londoners have a lot to thank TfL for. This is SUCH a positive development. London is such a good place to be.
Saw the tweets and have been patiently waiting for this since! Cheers, Geoff!
The color scheme is refreshing, but one has to worry how both shades will weather over the next 30 years. Dirt and muck will definitely show up on the cream-colored parts. Thanks, Geoff, for giving us such informative content.
Look like great trains, Geoff - they certainly look more spacious and I’m glad we can still “drive” them!
The DLR is a modern miracle. Great new trains.
Shame they'll be OLD before they actually come on the network, still not here!!
Thank you for taking us on these sneaky peek previews 🤩❤️
I saw these trains on the news the other day. I also saw these trains online last year they look very good. I can't wait for these train to come into service. R.I.P. old DLR trains
Tyne and Wear metro is also getting new trains that think are under testing rn.
@@davidty2006 geoff should become a train driver on the DLR
@@harrisonsnazel7482 EXTEND DLR to Waterloo Station🎉🎉
Another great video. Love your enthusiasm!
4:15 The demonstration with the grab poles is very much appreciated haha
Great video Geoff. I look forward to riding those new trains when they're out
The train looks AMAZING! Can't wait for them to come into service!
I DIDNT EVEN KNOW NEW TRAINS WERE COMING ❤️❤️❤️
The new DLR trains look great. Thank you Geoff for this video.
Absolutely love the DLR and have done since it arrived in Lewisham when I was a little boy. Very pleased to see these new trains!
When I was a kid, we went to New York (1972 ish?). The layout of these new trains remind me of the New York Subway of that time. Big difference, however, was that the seats down the length were hard plastic and very few arm rests. If the subway train braked sharply, everyone slid down the seats to be bunched up together. For a kid, it was hysterical! Our trains at the time had the deep, cushioned seats on the Northern Line, so the US trains felt very primitive.
Great video. Seats took a bit hard. I'm a bit worried about that. Journeys can take up to half an hour on DLR. Got used to the Overground seats.
0:19 Love that sweet smile Geoff 😁
Hmm they look nice but i dont really like sitting sideways as it sometimes makes me feel a bit queasy when outside. Kinda wish they'd have more forward facing seats as I can see lots of pushing for the front/back at rush hours :/
I'm glad I am not the only person totally in favour of using Transverse seating. There are an awful lot of tourists visiting London and riding the DLR is a big attraction. Where's the attraction if all you can do is sit facing the stranger looking at you from the other side of the train when wonderful London views are passing by you.
Catching up with my subscriptions and happily saw this one.
Although, then also just saw the "New train vandalism" story! (Breaking news just after 13:00 on 27/02/23)
Loving that new moquette. :-)
PS - was lovely randomly bumping into you over the weekend Geoff! :-) Second UA-camr I follow with the bell on that I now know in real life!
I still remember the first time I rode on the DLR, I got so excited I shouted a 'they're REMOTE CONTROL!?' couldn't remember the word automated... embarrassingly I was 17 😅 7yrs later I still get a lil kick out of sitting at the front even though I've now lived here for 6yrs. As always fab video Geoff
Great info Geoff.. Thanks and looking forward to using the new DLR in 2024!
Brilliant video Geoff, I'm definitely gonna miss them old B90 stock trains
I will miss the announcements so bad! I love the current one! So glad I live on the DLR route! 🤩 Please tell me they keep them! 😥😥
Nice have a great weekend Geoff
Hey Geoff! Excited for these new trains in
I don't know... I much prefer the current ones. I hope these new ones are gonna keep the red colour of the old ones, otherwise they look a bit bland.
I'm MASSIVELY happy that they've kept the front seats! Wahey!!!
Same! I was so worried that they would pull a merseyrail move and get rid of them
The two comments above are SCAMS do not interact with them.
I can finally say after a year or two, I've gotten one of these in reply to my comment. Took long enough 🤣
Those trains look fantastic.
When they delivered it last month, they told us not to photograph it or post it online as it would spoil the reveal. We all laughed because who would actually care that much. Then we found out how many people turned up to see it. Madness.
You are right, it's called DLR turquoise by TFL. (#368EA4 or 54 142 164). I'm glad they finally went for the turquoise because the red and blue livery made no sense at all.
The door position move was good because the old stock have the live rail pick up shoes directly below the doors which is why we had to put in shoe protection on the platform side through all platforms. I believe the bogey spacing is a bit longer than the old stock which will reduce end throw but increase centre throw slightly. Most importantly, it'll reduce gapping in some areas of the railway which can reduce the life span of some ramp ends.
Interesting to see that the new control panel lid lifts up and tucks down behind the console. The old version hinged from the side and got in the way a bit.
We were convinced that Bombardier were going to get the contract but CAF have done a great job. It looked good on the short and secret journey it made 1 night and passed all the depot tolerances with no issues.
Wow! Cool new DLR train!
Glad to see Andy Lord ... Great interview BTW "Mover and Shaker"
This is amazing- I wish Golders Green was this good, that station needs a complete overhaul in terms of accessibility. I’d be grateful if you could help Geoff.
Well done Geoff, very good review.
Fantastic video Geoff. Really enjoyed it.
Thank you for sharing the video Geoff that was fantastic information.
This is a year ago still haven't seem them materialise
The old B92 stock trains are called 3-car trains because they are made of 3 articulated cars. They cannot be divided into smaller units because of the wheel distribution. They have 3 bogeys each, and the middle one (a Jacobs-bogey) is right under the joint, supporting both segments of the car. You cannot uncouple it, so it is one car.
While the new trains' various systems were designed for a constant 5-segment unit, technically they can be uncoupled at the joints, because all the segments are supported by individual bogeys. It's hard to say if that makes them trains of 5 single cars, or a single car of 5 segments.
This is exciting, also absolutely brilliant video Geoff
I recently got my first experiences on-board DLR 2 months ago from Stafford to Bank, they were pretty interesting.
The green lights above the doors reminds me of the Amsterdam metro too, as well as Paris. It's good
The colour of this new London monorail is same as paris METRO and Amsterdam metro teal and white
I remember the original DLR doors had flat touch buttons which lit up with LEDs when pressed, looked futuristic at the time
In argentina we tend to name the "groups" of trains. If a train has 5 coaches, composed of an EMU of 3 and 2 cars, for example, we called the individual EMUs Triplets and Douplex
I remember looking at those control panels when there was no room to look anywhere else thinking it must be “Close this door” and “close other doors”, glad to have that confirmed a few years later!
I far prefer forward and back seating, some more of that is needed. I know they take up more space, but a couple more per train would be nice.
Okay this is super turbo nerdy, but when you were wondering what colour the grab poles are I immediately thought of Tokyo Subway! The Namboku line on Tokyo Metro is teal coloured which I believe was one of your options.
Comparing the grab poles to the colour on Wikipedia, (which is not very scientific, I'll grant you) the poles seem darker than the colour on the Namboku line so maybe Jade is the right colour
Geoff, you could be the voice for the announcements like that time you did some years ago 😁😁😁😁
As a occasional visitor I prefer the old cross seating for sightseeing, not so good on longitudinal seating.
Especially with the zero tolerance tfl now has
Hi Geoff, amazing video as always :D
All we need now is New Northern, Victoria, Circle (Metropolitan, Hammersmith And city lines) and Waterloo trains after DLR & picadilly lines have been completed.
Also new station safety doors, regeneration
I'm honestly going to miss the old designs. Essen in Germany, where the original p86 and p89 DLR rolling stock ended up being used as subway/tram vehicles is also planning to replace them this year. Maybe the ride will be smoother.
I thought with the extant DLR trains the DLR staff referred to one articulated pair as a “vehicle”, so we have 2 vehicle DLRs here at Beckton Park currently
Awesome Video Awesome New docklands light rail rolling stock
Those wheelchair priority areas need to be put in every train. I know the trains have like foldable chairs but there should be a proper dedicated one like the DLR one
asking for the rgb value was such a train nerdie thing to ask, love it
For some reason the way he delivered it just had me laughing - I want to find out what the values are
Looks great. However, it means I need to prioritise the DLR this year, and hunt out as many of the B90/B92 units to ride as I can (my current total is 11 out of 70).
geoff you should see about doing the voice for the trains, possibly the stations. this would be so cool
The colour of the interiors and the DLR logo colour is pretty much the same as what you would find on a Sydney Metro Train set the ones that operate at the moment between Tallawong and Chatswood in NSW Geoff. however next year Stage 2 of The Sydney Metro from Chatswood to Bankstown is due to open next year where they will eventually run from Tallawong all the way through Sydney's Central station and out to Bankstown.
Looking forward to seeing the new DLR trains next year.
I must say I really like the external colour scheme and I reckon it would look great on Overground and Underground trains too (replace the teal with orange and red respectively).
Elizabeth line trains kind of already have it, but it could be better.
The moquette is really nice!
I just love this channel! Cool moquettes
In my opinion:
Turquoise - Blue with a bit of green
Teal - Green with a bit of blue
Cyan - 50/50 blue and green
Jade - Green like jade crystals
Hi Geoff massive fan of the channel keep up the good work
I remember the london Titan buses when I was small back in the 80’s they used to have like purple lights at front of the bus downstairs that is what the d.l.r reminds me with their light green at the front of the car.