Today is day one of the new Denver Airport AGTS train APM-300R vehicles in operation, meaning this will be the first enthusiast video recording of these new trains. In actuality, this video is even releasing before the airport's official launch of the new train and ribbon cutting ceremony happening tomorrow, July 2nd. I take two round trips on the train in this video and get an inside look at the trains manual controls with a member of Alstom staff overseeing the operation of the new vehicles.
I apologize for the fuzzy view, the train windows were unfortunately not clean.
Here are some fun facts about the AGTS system and the new trains:
-The original C-100 vehicles (cars 1-16) have been in operation since 1992.
-In 1996, 2001, and 2007, 15 new CX-100 vehicles were added to the system, making for a total of 31 vehicles, with 7 trains running at once.
-With the addition of the first APM-300 train, Denver Airport has the only APM system in world running three rolling stock types on one system. The APM-300 vehicles will slowly replace all of the original C-100 and CX-100 vehicles.
-Once all vehicles are replaced, the APM-300 trains will be able to operate at significantly faster speeds (up to 50 MPH) than the original vehicles (up to 35 MPH).
-The trains will eventually be extended in length to 6 cars from 4 as the system will not be able to operate any more trains without more stations being added (the current layout can handle 8 trains max)
-With the new vehicles, the system should have a time efficiency of about a minute and a half between trains. Currently timetables average 2-4 minutes between trains.
30 июн 2024
