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Aboard the driverless trains on the new Southwest Sydney metro line (pxscdn.com)
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Aboard the driverless trains on the new Southwest Sydney metro line.

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Looking through the front window of the train at the tracks ahead.
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[–] 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Is this the rear or the front of the train? It'd tell me if this is an emergency exit from the train or from life.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    They run on the left, so this is the rear.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago

    @Tanoh @jellyfishhunter Usually, yes. But (at least last weekend) trains at the Bankstown metro station were terminating and then pulling out of the platform on the right. (You can see the crossover just ahead.)Which is how I managed to snap a picture from the front of the train of the tracks ahead while the train was on the tracks on the right-hand side.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    @jellyfishhunter @ajsadauskas@pixelfed.social It's the front.If there's an emergency in a tunnel and the train has come to a complete stop, then passengers can escape through the front window instead of exiting through a side door. And there's various types of emergencies (fire, derailment, explosion) where it's likely to be safer for passengers near the ends of the train to exit through the front or rear window, rather than try to exit through a side door and potentially walk past a safety hazard.

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