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System: Docklands Light Railway
Builder: Bombardier
Type: B92
Fleetnumber: 63
Location of Photo: West India Quay
Other Notes: N/A
Two new metro stations opened to the public on October 20, 2023, extending the metro line B to Oullins-Centre and Saint-Genis-Laval Hôpital Lyon-Sud, Lyon, France. The metro line B is now fully operated driverless with brand-new Alstom metro cars.
I paid a visit to theses new metro station with my French FOCA camera PF2B (year 1948). For the photo session, I equipped my Foca a normal lens Oplar 1:3.5 f=5cm lens. This lens, with the serial number beginning by 032, was manufactured in 1947 by the Optique & Précision de Levallois (OPL) French company, most likely in its factory of Châteaudun, Eure, France. The lens was also equipped withe with a generic 36mm push-on AUV filter a metal shade-hood.
I used also a special FOCA ever-ready bag made of a mix of strong military fabric and brown leather. This type of FOCA bag appeared as soon as 1945 and was price listed until 1954 but less popular and te other full leather bags. Exemplary in good shape is a rarity. The lens cap used here is a modern plastic 36mm lens cap Heliopan, Germany.
Due to a rather "foggy" finder, I used the Foca multi-focal external finder for the 50mm lense. The focus is almost impossible to evaluate using the internal range-finder that is, however, well operating. When necessary (distances bellow ca 5-6m), exact distances were measured using a LASER meter and reporting the value found to the lens distance scale.
The Foca camera was loaded with an Ilford HP5+ 36-exposure film. It was exposed for 400 ISO using an Autometer III Minolta lightmeter fitted with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas.
Chemin du Grand Revoyet, October 25,, 2023
69600 Oullins
France
After exposure, the film was developed using Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal). I wanted to develop the film at dilution 1+25 for 6min at 20°C to get a bit more of contrast but I was distracted and I prepared wrongly by routine a 1+50 that would have required 11min, resulting of an incomplete development and a quite pale negative. I realized my mistake while considering the film before complete wash.
I thought first that the film will be not usable and I was ready to return on the site for a second session. However, when digitalized it was possible to obtain acceptable positives views. Digitization was done using a Sony A7 body (24MP) fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. The RAW files obtained were processed without intermediate files in LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures.
All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg accompanied by some documentary smartphone Vivio Y76 color pictures.
About the camera :
This Foca PF2B is an early series (model-3 version-5 circa 1948) of the Foca PF2B 35mm French range-finder camera released in 1945. The PF2B model of Foca has the 36mm screw mount of all other Foca PF (PF standing for "Petit Format"). Foca camera's were constructed in France by the company "Optique & Precision de Levallois" (OPL) in the OPL factory of Chateaudun (Eure) starting from 1946. This factory still exists under the name of SAFRAN a French company producing aerospace devices and systems. This model of PF2B was originally without flash synchronisation. This one has been probably modified after sale with the double synchro X and FP that are still operating correctly (X synchro at 1/25s)
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6/11/18 Columbus,Ohio: TWU Local 208, with the help and support of TWU Local 100, Local 252, Local 291 and Local 501, gets an important resolution passed in the Columbus City Council to protect TWU members jobs and livelihoods in the battle against driverless buses.
The Hong Kong International Airport Automated People Mover is driverless train that operates in the basement of Hong Kong International Airport, to ferry passengers between the main terminal and the boarding gates that are a looooong way away. You can read more about the system on my blog:
www.checkerboardhill.com/2011/02/hong-hong-airport-driver...
Having cycled past this numerous times I decided it was time to have a go. I was the only passenger on this occasion.
The bus is 18 months into an extended trial. It runs on public roads over a 3km round trip along the South Perth foreshore, making it the furthest for any such trial in the world. The bus runs at level 4 High Automation, meaning that drivers are not needed but can intervene if necessary.
The maximum speed reached was a majestic 11km/h. It is capable of faster speeds but is restricted due to current regulations and agreements. Being a bit of a control freak I am not a very good car passenger normally but didn't have any problems riding in this, probably partly due to the slow speed. Apparently there are plans for a trial of driverless taxis in the cpd later this year, which should be very interesting.
System: Docklands Light Railway
Builder: Bombardier
Type: B90
Fleetnumber: 37
Location of Photo: Limehouse
Other Notes: N/A
The Hong Kong International Airport Automated People Mover is driverless train that operates in the basement of Hong Kong International Airport, to ferry passengers between the main terminal and the boarding gates that are a looooong way away. You can read more about the system on my blog:
www.checkerboardhill.com/2011/02/hong-hong-airport-driver...
System: Docklands Light Railway
Builder: Bombardier
Type: B92
Fleetnumber: 49
Location of Photo: Limehouse
Other Notes: N/A
The elevated and driverless metro system is seen on the left of this image, with Media City station.
The Docklands Light Rail opened in 1987. It's driverless, so if you sit in the front seat (have to fight the kids to do this) you can pretend you're the driver. The DLR network is connected to the Tube and it's really helped the regeneration of east London. Because a lot of the area it serves is old docklands, most of the DLR is on viaduct with elevated stations and platforms. Extensions to the DLR are on the cards in development plans for the 2012 Olympics.
FSG event has strong international participation. It also has several categories including combustion, electric and beginning next year driverless.
Thursday, May 29th, 2014
The 2014 McKinsey Global Infrastructure Initiative
Rethinking Infrastructure
12:10-12:20
INSPIRING IDEAS: THE DRIVERLESS CITY
The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics is rapidly turning the vision of the driverless city into reality. Successfully deployed, the driverless city will transform transport infrastructure, congestion, and many other facets of urban living.
Speaker: Carlo Ratti, Director, Senseable City Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Photograph by McKinsey Global Infrastructure/Stuart Isett
the longest driverless automatic train system with a total length of 75 kilometres. It includes the 52 kilometre-long Red Line linking Al Rashidiya to the Jebel Ali Free Zone.
The Hong Kong International Airport Automated People Mover is driverless train that operates in the basement of Hong Kong International Airport, to ferry passengers between the main terminal and the boarding gates that are a looooong way away. You can read more about the system on my blog:
www.checkerboardhill.com/2011/02/hong-hong-airport-driver...
The Hong Kong International Airport Automated People Mover is driverless train that operates in the basement of Hong Kong International Airport, to ferry passengers between the main terminal and the boarding gates that are a looooong way away. You can read more about the system on my blog:
www.checkerboardhill.com/2011/02/hong-hong-airport-driver...
System: Docklands Light Railway
Builder: Bombardier
Type: B92
Fleetnumber: 50
Location of Photo: Lewisham
Other Notes: N/A
The driverless, automated Metro in Copenhagen. Our train is travelling on line two from the airport to the city.
Now this is one beast of a "350" especially when it runs past you driverless! Yes driverless due to its remote control fitted equipment the extra lights on the nose indicate its direction of travel as the driver could well be at the rear of a set of wagons over a 1000foot away with his joystick!!!
The Hong Kong International Airport Automated People Mover is driverless train that operates in the basement of Hong Kong International Airport, to ferry passengers between the main terminal and the boarding gates that are a looooong way away. You can read more about the system on my blog:
www.checkerboardhill.com/2011/02/hong-hong-airport-driver...