Hello this is a really quick video I find myself in Germany in Berlin at InnoTrans which is a railway
expo it takes place every two years or the major railway manufacturers train companies come
here exhibit all their wares I'm here thanks to Simens, Siemens Mobility thanks very much for flying me
out here to have a look at their trains and services but whilst here I've also quite by chance
for myself standing next to the New Glasgow subway train which is going to be rolled out in the next
couple years made by Stadler and it just seemed rude to ignore it seeing as it's right there we're
just gonna have a quick look at the new because I did watch secrets of the Glasgow Underground
just a few weeks ago and I've come here today and the new train is there I can't not have a look at it
so i'm gonna walk up the steps and do like a walkthrough guide straightaway first of all I almost bumped my
head there's a bit in the video I said please mind your head I would still please have to
mind my head so this must be about six foot i'm gonna have to duck under
in the bit in the middle oh it's quite compact in here I can now stand my six foot three just about
clears the roof just about bit to the side less though, okay walking through
grab handles are all in orange very much the colour of the subway let's keep going, note what I just
did that I just walked through I put a tweet out this morning but I said that there four carraiges
long I think I got that wrong but now look down here look at the moquette it's just it's so nice I don't
know who's design the moquette but if they've taken the colors the dark grey and light grey the orange
and the orange is like a splash like a hint of orange they've done just the right amount it's
not too much but it's also just enough you know what I mean? it's nice anyway let's bring the camera
around here so I can see if it goes all the way from it's got that perfect curve the doors are
on the curve the curve actually if you look on the doors goes quite a long way up it curves in
quite a lot like that it's only this central section as I say where my head can have its
clearance but I can stand up, upright there's a couple of screens in the end here there's one
hit showing the map right now there's another screen over there well let's keep on going down
do you know what? I think that is four carriages after all that is for carriages and at the front
what have we got here someone's just vacated this seat so I'm just going to come in and sit in the
driver's cab right now I can see a very simple joystick phone button to control the controversy is
is that there appears to be speculation that the trains will be driverless
and there's been some discussion on Twitter today as to whether there will be like a train captain like the
DLR or whether there will be no staff on board at all I don't know what that is maybe they're
giving them the option because you got the cab up here there is a cab here and down the other end
there isn't a cab let's go down the other end in one of the vestibules by the carriage dissolves
it's fairly like an SOS and a comms panel here over here there's what looks to be like a little
speaker and also a little bit of the CCTV camera now there's CCTV cameras all over the place now
that I come to think of it down here there is another panel there's another panel here but
that's because this is in the area that set aside for wheelchair access and over here flip down
so there's flip-down seats too - it just looks cool being
able to see all the way down through a Glasgow subway train I like it
now the other end there clearly was a cab space here a little bit like DLR where there's that
control panel that flips down it looks to me here as if it appear the controls pop out from under the seat
so I'm unclear as to whether there will be a cab at this end or not well maybe that's
just an option you can either have a cab one of these so if there are driverless somebody still
can come in and take over the manual control by just popping up the control from under the seat
so i've just gonna got a brochure up a nice man that Stadler have outside he's given me the facts that I should
have asked before I should have started to make a video there are four cars do a cutaway shot
now to the fact that what you can see is at the end two cars longer than the middle one so car
one and car for the end cars are 13 metres long and the two middle cars cars 2 and 3 only I think
he said yeah 7 meters long they're quite short so it's long short short long there's gonna be
17 trains in total when I'm delivered by he says he thinks 2020 now here's the thing we got a cab
at that end and a non-cab down that end it's just a demo to show what a cab and a long cab
will look like what he's suggesting it's that they're gonna have a phase where all the trains
do run with drivers and then it'll be phased out or phased over into running completely automated
and you'll just have controls under the seat and they will strip out the cabs is what I
think he was suggesting and then the trains will go cabless and fully automated by 2022 and also
rumour and speculation amongst some people here that the Glasgow subway will then have platform
screen doors but they can only put those in once all the new rolling stock is in so they
can then line up you know the doors at the edge of the platform to the doors on the new stock
crikey! i think that's it ...