Yes, they really underestimated the volume of passengers which would use the railway!

High tech! Future! Next generation vision! But when it breaks down some bloke has to drive from DLR HQ in his Ford Transit to come and fix it... Oh 1980's!

Also, I love the way the switch labelling inside the cabinet is a mixture of dynotape and hand-written felt tip

Nice to see the original Island Gardens at the start. Seems strange how the original station seemed so modern back then, but look so dated now. It's also weird seeing the original single car stock, they look so small.

ARRRRGGGGHHHHH HIS VOICE GOES THROUGH MY LEFT EAR AND THE MUSIC THROUGH MY RIGHT ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

The end tho! 😂😂😂 It's like an old sitcom!

The music at the start is an absolute banger.

I want that Van!!!!!!

Meanwhile all passengers have either died of boredom, or escaped and completed their journey on foot. It's so slow watching the recovery.

Since trains from what I can tell haven’t run single in over a decade, this probably can’t happen as when a train has two cars only one unit needs to be receiving power to run the entire train. The B90 and B92 trains are also being replaced with a new type that’ll enter service sometime in 2022 where one unit is the length of three coupled together now.

1:00 [beeps, boops, and incomprehensibly muffled, echoey communications] "Docklands Light Railway embodies the most up-to-date technology..."

I've got this music as my ringtone

I'd like a date with Martin French. No, not Martin French of today; the 1988 vintage Martin French. I'll even buy dinner (if he wears the hat ... lol).

Try watching this with headphones on.

For anyone interested the intro music is falquero & chiappe zilch and neon lights

Well I been taught about these safety instructions when I was working for London underground (TfL) how track is powered on and only use lights on inside tunnel for emergency use only and X mean radio / telephone not working. Also wear the correct PPE on site safety including depot , when I was at Ealing common depot, Acton works we had to wear orange HV in case of moving trains ahead and also boots done up properly for safety. I also did a CSA gateline duty for LU at Victoria tube station like 54 or 16 to base are you received over in case barrier is not working we reseted to 95E if broken. When I also worked at East kent railway, Shepherdswell near dover I passed PTS course if qualified to work on the track or on the line also look out for ongoing trains as both directions

Nice to see that although the trains and railway have changed a lot since then, the uniforms remain as spiffy now as back then! Shame about the new liveries though, I prefer the original blue with red stripes...

I’ve never seen a PPE Bikini before, that safety vest is certainly short 🤣

So that’s why DLR trains are 6 cars. They never make it past the Poplar junction because they are too short

A fascinating watch, from someone who just about remembers the old P86/89 stock in the 90s. I miss them! How often did this procedure end up happening, both back then and now?

0:40 Long Good Friday theme pastiche ;-) 1:56 *Pressure* of 750V DC :-D

Assistance in the rear?

I'd have thought that on an automatic railway, it would be possible to ensure that a train never crosses a conductor rail gap at a speed slow enough to let it become stalled.

So, if the disabled train is stuck in a gap without power, and it was going too slow to coast thru it -- why doesn't the second train also stall out when it pushes the first train out of the gap? It should drive into it at a very slow speed?

I love the DlR

Just like a monorail. Didn't know 5:39 there are indicators/hazard lights

What's the music at the beginning?

What's stopping the unit that's giving the push from getting stuck between the gap?

10:40 After HWICH ?

Re 'gapping', surely the point of having more than one collector shoe per train is that if one shoe loses contact with the rail at a junction, there will be other shoes still in contact elsewhere on the train. Even with the original single-car trains, I'm surprised the gaps are so long that ALL shoes lose contact simultaneously and the train was expected to coast across.

I wonder what Elaine is up to these days?

Didn't the narrator mean the Third Industrial Revolution? The Second Industrial Revolution ended in 1914!

any easy way to prevent this kind of thing from happening and saving the people on the trains a lot of time is to simple add a 3rd or 4th car to the train, the extra length will allow the train to thru switches or around curves and then get power back every time by looking at the set up of what has been laid out already.

Can someone tell me what the synth music at the start is

Lovely.

0:30 Correction: "The Third Industrial Revolution".

Who came here for the music?

Bright clean passenger transport- proceeds to pan out to zero pantographs, third rail or Canaries. ... I wasn't looking at the world's worst attempt at hiding a death sentence conductor rail.

What is the point of purchasing automatic trains if you will have at least one staff member on the train anyway ? Wouldn’t it have been cheaper to purchase non automatic trains ?

This is a really sad scenario for any railway: The service breaking down because a train wasn't fast enough and lost contact with the current supply. I wonder if this ever really happened or if it was just their way of not admitting that they expected more frequent technical failures, as it is the case with every new technology. Because if they WERE expecting this to happen, why didn't they try to built junctions with little bits of conductor rail inbetween or use overhead wiring altogether ??

This was before they became a part ofe the tfl tiketing scheme

Why would a driverless train move too slowly to coast over a gap in the 3rd rail?

I thought Docklands trains didn't have any crew on board.

You would not reconise any of these locations now so many buildings have gone up since then. We lived in a very differnt world back then none of the health and safety bullshit that we have now. it is my understanding that those cars are now working as trams in germany somewhere !!

I Think These Are P86 Stocks

ah yes. mono audio on sterio headphones.

Well a wheelchair wouldn't fit on a train

0:30 that dog is probably dead now :(

hungry :its rare nowadays to have crew on as when i went on my first journey by dlr their was a crew member on and they let me press a manual start button n since then havent seen many crew members

how come the speedometer is in km/h?

why not use 3rd and 4th rails?

Remember the days when the train behind just pushed it straight away and didn't have to go though a bunch of pointless procedures?

G

If you're gonna pay people to be in the trains anyway, why not just let them be train operators, rather than paying them AND paying for elaborate computer systems to operate the trains?

chavvy mechanics with bling. ..typical

Train Captains what bull shit and jargon is that,,

i thought the DLR did not have drivers because in 2015 the trains are now driverless!