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> I'm not sure that they are going to run non-CBTC trains through the new tunnel. The old trains wouldn’t work with the platform doors, so no. But the other wa
by skissane 2y ago
> I'm not sure that they are going to run non-CBTC trains through the new tunnel.
The old trains wouldn’t work with the platform doors, so no. But the other way around: those lines continue beyond the tunnels on the surface, and some of those surface sections may be shared by both old and new trains, which would require some form of interoperability between CBTC and non-CBTC, until they move the whole network to CBTC.
Also, I would expect that maintenance trains (track inspection, etc) will likely be shared between CBTC and non-CBTC and so have to support both