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There are many times when the DLR trains have no employees onboard

• tialaramex 5y ago
  There aren't, although I guess in a crowded DLR train you might not realise. A DLR train won't go anywhere until the operator closes the doors, which they can do from any set of doors on the train. Because the DLR is GoA 3 there doesn't need to be a plan for how central operations can co-ordinate rescue of a failed train without somebody at the scene, there will be an attendant, who is trained to drive the train, onboard somewhere.
  • mavhc 5y ago
    Interesting. A very strange job then, most of the time you just close doors, and once a year you drive a train
    • tialaramex 5y ago
      The DLR closes most nights. When it re-opens, the first train of each day on each section is driven manually to confirm that maintenance crews haven't managed to leave anything on the track. Yes there are procedures to ensure they don't do that, but no procedure is foolproof. Attendants may also choose to drive a train at other times, although doing so will generally be slower even if the computer is overseeing the journey (and the train won't accelerate above a crawl if the computer isn't overseeing) so it would be avoided in normal service. The main job of these personnel are to assist passengers. So it's more a people job than train driver. Wondering if the Stratford destination is "the Shakespeare one"? They can help. Are the lifts working at the stop you need? They can check. Is it far to walk from this next stop to the museum? Does this ticket work on a ferry or only trains?
      • mavhc 5y ago
        Does the automatic system limit where/when the manual trains can go to avoid crashes? What about syncing times multiple trains use the same track?