Designs for 250 London Underground (LU) trains have been unveiled as part of an upgrade which could cost about £16bn. The trains will be installed on the Piccadilly, Central, Waterloo & City and Bakerloo lines from the mid-2020s. They will have walk-through carriages similar to the new Metropolitan, District and Circle line trains. However, the RMT union said it was deeply concerned the trains will have the capacity to be driverless. LU said they would initially be operated- General secretary of the union, Mick Cash, said: RMT has made it clear repeatedly that any moves towards the lethal and cash driven nonsense of removing drivers on London Underground would be resisted through the most robust industrial and political campaign of opposition. A spokesman for Transport for London (TfL) said no driver would lose their job, adding that if a decision was made to go driverless it would be phased in. Finn Brennan from Aslef, the train drivers union, said they would always oppose automated trains because the single-track, Victorian infrastructure was designed to be negotiated by drivers. Currently, the Docklands Light Railway service operates driverless trains but its infrastructure only dates back to the 1980s.
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 05:21:14 +0000
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