subtitle display too short, by the time you realise it's on the screen and look down it's gone, I had to replay. Hold them for a bit longer!!

FR! 😂😂😂 They should.

Not enough room, after accounting for his ego.

They've made socks of the previous moquette! They're very nice. Fingers crossed they get round to this one sooner rather than later

Maybe it's a long way away.

The trains operate on a four foot gauge, compared with 4ft 8 inches for other Briitsh trains. This means they're narrower and smaller.

Very old tunnels dug with the limited technology of the time constraining size. Even London’s underground seems small compared to other systems. Don’t see how anyone over 2m in height could ride these comfortably. I’m spoilt living on one of Tokyo’s newer lines with the cars having twice the space of these and an incredibly smooth ride, but the exterior design of these is more futuristic than anything I’ve seen in Tokyo yet.

Also 2-for-2 on level boarding trains. Great for accessibility and level boarding just speeds up embarking & disembarking, meaning less dwell time

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Stadler FLIRT my beloved

Ye its probably inspired by it

Look like devil teeth. 😅

The two wires supplied the lighting current, not the traction current. The block system was also operated Fromm the lighting circuit which was a real anachronism.

@@screwdriver5181 it was a long time ago so memory isn’t as good as it used to be 👨‍🦳

Glasgow has a reputation to maintain. Long ago the trams would "shoogle" going to Auchenshuggle and the Subway has to maintain that. When the train stops "shoogling" it's stopped.😊

Hahaha yes!!!

oh they will. Newcastle can bet on it.

If only they were made by Alstom in Derby

@@willhovell9019 Isn't the Derby factory full too right now? Cause at the moment Alstom is a bit like Airbus : too many orders, not enough factories and production lines = production queues getting longer and longer... Paris has well over a thousand trains of 6 or 7 different types on order from Alstom, as they haven't yet received all the new MP14 trains (more than 25 are missing) that they've ordered for their rubber-tired metro lines, so much that they had to open some major extensions with incomplete fleets (some new RER-NG trains were also delayed). They're also waiting for the Grand Paris Express' 220+ trains (MR6V-MR3V & MRV) and at the same time they're renewing both the entire fleet of 8 out of their 11 steel wheeled metro lines (MF19), and the entire fleets of at least 3, possibly 4, of their 5 RER lines (MI20 & RER-NG). Plus, there's a first order for 115 new TGV M's that's being produced, and a second order right around the corner... After some low-ish years in France on heavy and metro rolling-stock, Alstom's now swamped by the crushing number of orders, making production queues extend well into the 2030's. It seems like pretty much all European Alstom factories are booked for years.

Would that be the bit that caused them to notch up and down all the time to maintain set speeds? \m/

I KNOW, RIGHT?! IT'S GIVING _DAFT PUNK_ VIBES!!!

Yes as far as I'm aware the plan is for them to be driverless in the Copenhagen/DLR style with no cab

Paris Metro also has driverless trains on some lines where you can sit in the front.

Just my phone camera, Google Pixel 7. It was new at the time so I hadn't turned on enhanced stabilisation which I'd recommend

They don't even have a PIS, just a screen displaying all the stops.

You better get used to them because you will be riding them for the next 40 years

@@peterwaugh9416 There's not the slightest chance they'll last as long as the gen 2 stock

I don't like the slow doors on modern trains much either. I miss all the air pressure doors and folding doors on metros and trams from the 60s-90s and why does everything have to have the aesthetic of a fridge these days?

I noticed the lack of grab handles and the seats do look on the firm side. I grew up using the MCW subway trains and when I was a baby I travelled on the original stock, just before the big renovation works. I have memories of the construction work at Hillhead when I was three years old.

As far as I'm aware eg the Victoria Line uses full ATO without platform screen doors. But there is an operator there on standby so maybe that's the mitigation. I'm guessing they'll be planning to install the doors at some point. Personally hoping they'll be the half-height ones they have in Japan

@@edificity In Rome. Milan and Toulouse, the auto lines have full screen doors. I think Paris does as well. Line 14, not been on that. Any errors are purely down to the wine.

do you mean subway trains? Subways is plural for a passage way underground or a God awful American nasty unhealthy fast-food joint

Haven't breakdowns increased since the new trains have been introduced

Even in London now it's almost impossible to get the government to part with the funds for transit expansion. Other cities have no chance until there's a step change in policy

Glasgow is mainly built on rock, which makes expansion of the system particularly expensive. Glasgow is lucky to still have the subway; in the 1970s, serious consideration was given to shutting it down permanently. Fortunately, they elected to modernise it instead, at great expense.

Glaswegians!!

Just before I had a three-week work assignment in Glasgow 45 years ago, my father asked me to observe if there was anything noticeably different about Glaswegians compared to us Edinburghers. I expected the answer to be that there were more redheads in Glasgow but I immediately observed that there were a lot of very short people. I am not particularly tall at 6'2" but it did feel a bit like being in Gulliver's Travels at times. When I reported back to my father, who was 6'1", he said that the shortness of the local citizens was why the Glasgow Subway carriages were so small. My father had an imaginative sense of humour!

@@rookdy to my knowledge none of the rolling stock manufacturers have a facility in Scotland

At Kelvinhall station, famously, you can see both next to each other on the street

When I was there it was the old units doing that

La sagoma e le dimensioni sono imposte dal diametro delle gallerie scavate nel 1896. Sono di Glasgow, ho viaggiato tantissimo in metropolitana e posso assicurare che c'è spazio sufficiente per stare seduti comodamente. Sono alto 1,80 con gambe lunghe, basta prestare attenzione a non sbattere la testa quando ci si alza e si esce. Ho visto gente ben più alta di me viaggiare in metropolitana senza chissà quali problemi. Consiglio comunque di venire a Glasgow e provarla di persona, la città è molto accogliente e la gente del posto molto amichevole. Saluti da Glasgow e da Padova!

Thanks for cursing me with the knowledge of those things

I agree with you on most, but, the seats aren't meant for long journeys so it doesn't really matter about comfort. Most journeys are up to 10 minutes.

I agree, it also feels longer (the journey) and it probably is.