Ahh, such good old memories of the Transit system at London Gatwick Airport back in the 1990s! The last time I was on the the transit from the Satellite Building gates to the South Terminal was back 24 years ago when I flew back from Lyon on the School Skiing trip with Edington School. Sadly, its no longer there but I still see the track laid while walking through a new walkway that replaced it when I flew to Munich and after flying back from Cologne with Easyjet and both flights departed and arrived at the Satellite Building as well.

This is awesome. You upload very rare footage. This must be the only surviving video of the satellite transit. So many things from the 80s have already gone, such as Birmingham maglev, DLR P trains, 1986 red green blue trains. You are like the only person who went out and recorded this stuff at the time. And today, most of these things are forgotten like they never happened.

I rode on both many times during my formative years as a maintenance worker at Gatwick Airport.

Amazing video!

Great video.☺️

These were like a precursor to my DLR affinity. When I first went on one sometime in 1989 or 1991, the dark "garage" building (which felt like an airline jetty) made me genuinely think we were about to take off like the planes at the airport; yet we were only there to wait for someone's arrival! xD

That was very interesting. Nice Vid! 😃

Bombardier bought over this system in the 1990's and they now sell it as the Innovia APM. Here in Singapore our airport used to use such a system for the airport people mover, before it was replaced by the Japanese Crystal Mover system by Mitsubishi, which incidentally is similar to the one used on our Sengkang/Punggol LRT systems. The Bukit Panjang LRT system here still uses the Bombardier Innovia APM system though; right now there are plans to upgrade and overhaul the system, which has been notoriously unreliable. They had considered either replacing it with a PRT system (think Heathrow ULTra) or dismantle the system entirely, but both were ruled out, and now it's either enhancing the existing Bombardier system, or to replace it with a conventional light rail system (probably something like the Docklands Light Railway, I suspect).

I'm going to have 'Global' the British Airways 1990's marketing music stuck in my head as an earworm all day!! I've lived in Devon so long that I had forgotten there was a monorail transit on the Surrey/West Sussex border.

Thanks so much for posting this. Such memories especially of the Pier 3 transit! I am trying to remember what the old layout was like, where was the station in relation to where the current walkway is on the transit?

In the days when city check in was allowed before the tightening of security restrictions and the abolishment of city check in. A much loved facility for Trans-Atlantic and Asian bound customers who could leave thier hotel in London check their luggage in at Victoria and then travel down on a later train to board afternoon and evening flights.

Nice video there of these amazing Adtranz C-100s, we have a lot of CX-100 systems in the US, are these particular APM vehicles air conditioned at this airport? They don’t have the vent under the windshield like most CX-100s and some other C-100s.

Oh, that BA theme...

So the Gatwick Transit system was actually the first place where platform edge doors were fitted in the UK....And everyone says it was the Jubilee line.

You wouldn't expect the polite announcements and music on the tube would you?

Are both the Westinghouse and Adtranz on the same track? and is it possible to enter the monorail even if you are not going to enter the airport itself to travel?

can you make one of these at Heathrow airport?

14:38 when did they get rid of that transit I remember going to Gatwick in 2003 and it was still there but when I went in 2006 it had gone.

Air-bus I get it

They look rather familiar to the old Florida metro movers.....

13:44 "Enjoy your flight"

Might have been a brain-glitch, but wasn't these colored in polka-dots at one point?

Simiar to heathrow pods Expect these are not a giant basketball

Passengers must not smoke while in the station or traveling on the transit. Please extinguish all cigarettes.

Where is the train driver? This is unsafe train without driver, obscuring cause serious accident when they've gone out of control problem.