U3 success helps automatisation for the second time around

Immediately after the commissioning of the new fully-automatic U3 metro line, VAG Vergkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nurnberg and Siemens AG, the general contractor, started to automate the existing Nurnberg U2 metro line (Rothenbach - Nuremberg Airport) in the summer of 2008. The U3 is Germany's first fully-automated metro line, which also runs in mixed operation with the conventional U2 line on a shared track. This article describes the success of the U3 so far; its availability, operations, vehicle doors and operations; and the U2 conversion to start at the end of 2009.

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Pagination: 19-21
  • Serial:
    • EUROTRANSPORT
    • Publisher: RUSSELL PUBLISHING LTD
    • ISSN: 1478-8217

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01144062
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: TRL
  • Files: ITRD
  • Created Date: Nov 16 2009 12:24PM