This is awesome. You upload very rare footage. This must be the only surviving video of the satellite transit. So many things from the 80s have already gone, such as Birmingham maglev, DLR P trains, 1986 red green blue trains. You are like the only person who went out and recorded this stuff at the time. And today, most of these things are forgotten like they never happened.
+benobve Thanks! I've been wanting to make this film for ages but my video player simply refused to play this videotape properly. In the end I had to get a relative to digitise it for me. Even he had a few problems, hence the glitches in the sound. I understand the Birmingham Maglev vehicles have all survived, which is at least something. But it still seems totally bizarre that something as advanced as a maglev had to close because its electric were old fashioned and spare parts were no longer available. re: the DLR P86 and P89 trains, these will feature in what might be my next film - in their new home, which is Essen in Germany.
+citytransportinfo have you heard about the Bukit Panjang LRT which they're also using newer versions of what's now called the Innovia APM 100. GA's trains had also replaced old ones with the new
The music on the transit was the sound of my holidays as a childhood. The minute you got off the train and onto the transit you were excited to be getting away. I remember this also used to be the music BA would play while boarding the plane.
Ahh, such good old memories of the Transit system at London Gatwick Airport back in the 1990s! The last time I was on the the transit from the Satellite Building gates to the South Terminal was back 24 years ago when I flew back from Lyon on the School Skiing trip with Edington School. Sadly, its no longer there but I still see the track laid while walking through a new walkway that replaced it when I flew to Munich and after flying back from Cologne with Easyjet and both flights departed and arrived at the Satellite Building as well.
These were like a precursor to my DLR affinity. When I first went on one sometime in 1989 or 1991, the dark "garage" building (which felt like an airline jetty) made me genuinely think we were about to take off like the planes at the airport; yet we were only there to wait for someone's arrival! xD
I'm going to have 'Global' the British Airways 1990's marketing music stuck in my head as an earworm all day!! I've lived in Devon so long that I had forgotten there was a monorail transit on the Surrey/West Sussex border.
Bombardier bought over this system in the 1990's and they now sell it as the Innovia APM. Here in Singapore our airport used to use such a system for the airport people mover, before it was replaced by the Japanese Crystal Mover system by Mitsubishi, which incidentally is similar to the one used on our Sengkang/Punggol LRT systems. The Bukit Panjang LRT system here still uses the Bombardier Innovia APM system though; right now there are plans to upgrade and overhaul the system, which has been notoriously unreliable. They had considered either replacing it with a PRT system (think Heathrow ULTra) or dismantle the system entirely, but both were ruled out, and now it's either enhancing the existing Bombardier system, or to replace it with a conventional light rail system (probably something like the Docklands Light Railway, I suspect).
In the days when city check in was allowed before the tightening of security restrictions and the abolishment of city check in. A much loved facility for Trans-Atlantic and Asian bound customers who could leave thier hotel in London check their luggage in at Victoria and then travel down on a later train to board afternoon and evening flights.
+MrGriser Hmm, I think it would have been either 2007 or 2008. I recall going to Cyprus on a holiday where my cameras were left at home (I bought a single use camera for holiday snaps), but because it was a proper holiday I did not keep my travel tickets etc as souvenirs. So I cannot look through my files to find anything.
+citytransportinfo I assume it closed because it was more effective to use moving walkways, which is a shame. Am I also correct in thinking there is no access to it whatsoever, but the track is still in situ?
So the Gatwick Transit system was actually the first place where platform edge doors were fitted in the UK....And everyone says it was the Jubilee line.
Thanks so much for posting this. Such memories especially of the Pier 3 transit! I am trying to remember what the old layout was like, where was the station in relation to where the current walkway is on the transit?
Nice video there of these amazing Adtranz C-100s, we have a lot of CX-100 systems in the US, are these particular APM vehicles air conditioned at this airport? They don’t have the vent under the windshield like most CX-100s and some other C-100s.
Thanks. Alas, I do not know but will be surprised if either of them were air-conditioned and as both sets of these APM vehicles have now been replaced it is not possible to find out by riding them.
Are both the Westinghouse and Adtranz on the same track? and is it possible to enter the monorail even if you are not going to enter the airport itself to travel?
+dontrequest Yes that is a nice message, however (and alas) I did not film the other direction and therefore do not know the message for people who had just arrived at the airport.
+ADAM MARS Yes, they are... thats because they are the same vehicles! Metromover is one of the rare examples of a transit system using the C-100 (and later variant) vehicles outside of an airport. See here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adtranz_C-100
+Mega Swampert 123 Do you mean the Ultra Pods which link the car park with Terminal 5? There is also a Transit system inside T5 but that is fully enclosed and uses the latest Bombardier Innovia 200 APM.
This is awesome. You upload very rare footage. This must be the only surviving video of the satellite transit.
So many things from the 80s have already gone, such as Birmingham maglev, DLR P trains, 1986 red green blue trains. You are like the only person who went out and recorded this stuff at the time. And today, most of these things are forgotten like they never happened.
+benobve Thanks!
I've been wanting to make this film for ages but my video player simply refused to play this videotape properly. In the end I had to get a relative to digitise it for me. Even he had a few problems, hence the glitches in the sound.
I understand the Birmingham Maglev vehicles have all survived, which is at least something. But it still seems totally bizarre that something as advanced as a maglev had to close because its electric were old fashioned and spare parts were no longer available.
re: the DLR P86 and P89 trains, these will feature in what might be my next film - in their new home, which is Essen in Germany.
+citytransportinfo have you heard about the Bukit Panjang LRT which they're also using newer versions of what's now called the Innovia APM 100. GA's trains had also replaced old ones with the new
Beno yeah
Beno did you know that the DLR P86 and P89 were transferred to Essen?
Omg hi beno I been to your website
The music on the transit was the sound of my holidays as a childhood. The minute you got off the train and onto the transit you were excited to be getting away. I remember this also used to be the music BA would play while boarding the plane.
Ahh, such good old memories of the Transit system at London Gatwick Airport back in the 1990s! The last time I was on the the transit from the Satellite Building gates to the South Terminal was back 24 years ago when I flew back from Lyon on the School Skiing trip with Edington School. Sadly, its no longer there but I still see the track laid while walking through a new walkway that replaced it when I flew to Munich and after flying back from Cologne with Easyjet and both flights departed and arrived at the Satellite Building as well.
I rode on both many times during my formative years as a maintenance worker at Gatwick Airport.
These were like a precursor to my DLR affinity. When I first went on one sometime in 1989 or 1991, the dark "garage" building (which felt like an airline jetty) made me genuinely think we were about to take off like the planes at the airport; yet we were only there to wait for someone's arrival! xD
I'm going to have 'Global' the British Airways 1990's marketing music stuck in my head as an earworm all day!! I've lived in Devon so long that I had forgotten there was a monorail transit on the Surrey/West Sussex border.
Bombardier bought over this system in the 1990's and they now sell it as the Innovia APM.
Here in Singapore our airport used to use such a system for the airport people mover, before it was replaced by the Japanese Crystal Mover system by Mitsubishi, which incidentally is similar to the one used on our Sengkang/Punggol LRT systems. The Bukit Panjang LRT system here still uses the Bombardier Innovia APM system though; right now there are plans to upgrade and overhaul the system, which has been notoriously unreliable. They had considered either replacing it with a PRT system (think Heathrow ULTra) or dismantle the system entirely, but both were ruled out, and now it's either enhancing the existing Bombardier system, or to replace it with a conventional light rail system (probably something like the Docklands Light Railway, I suspect).
Great video.☺️
In the days when city check in was allowed before the tightening of security restrictions and the abolishment of city check in. A much loved facility for Trans-Atlantic and Asian bound customers who could leave thier hotel in London check their luggage in at Victoria and then travel down on a later train to board afternoon and evening flights.
14:38 when did they get rid of that transit I remember going to Gatwick in 2003 and it was still there but when I went in 2006 it had gone.
+MrGriser I don't know the exact date it went, only that one year when I wanted to use it I found that it was not there! :-(
citytransportinfo Which year was that may I ask?
+MrGriser Hmm, I think it would have been either 2007 or 2008. I recall going to Cyprus on a holiday where my cameras were left at home (I bought a single use camera for holiday snaps), but because it was a proper holiday I did not keep my travel tickets etc as souvenirs. So I cannot look through my files to find anything.
+citytransportinfo I assume it closed because it was more effective to use moving walkways, which is a shame. Am I also correct in thinking there is no access to it whatsoever, but the track is still in situ?
That was very interesting. Nice Vid! 😃
+GadgBoy313 Thanks!
can you make one of these at Heathrow airport?
I first need to travel through Terminal 5. No other terminal uses these trains.
ok
So the Gatwick Transit system was actually the first place where platform edge doors were fitted in the UK....And everyone says it was the Jubilee line.
+TheBVE2010 Yes, it probably was, as it opened in 1983, whilst the Birmingham Airport Maglev (which also used platform doors) opened a year later.
Thanks so much for posting this. Such memories especially of the Pier 3 transit! I am trying to remember what the old layout was like, where was the station in relation to where the current walkway is on the transit?
sorry but I do not know.
You wouldn't expect the polite announcements and music on the tube would you?
Nice video there of these amazing Adtranz C-100s, we have a lot of CX-100 systems in the US, are these particular APM vehicles air conditioned at this airport? They don’t have the vent under the windshield like most CX-100s and some other C-100s.
Thanks.
Alas, I do not know but will be surprised if either of them were air-conditioned and as both sets of these APM vehicles have now been replaced it is not possible to find out by riding them.
@@CitytransportInfoplus They usually have vents under the windshield in the air conditioned vehicles.
Are both the Westinghouse and Adtranz on the same track? and is it possible to enter the monorail even if you are not going to enter the airport itself to travel?
Tariq Albastaki No to first question and Yes to second question
Oh, that BA theme...
13:44 "Enjoy your flight"
+dontrequest Yes that is a nice message, however (and alas) I did not film the other direction and therefore do not know the message for people who had just arrived at the airport.
They look rather familiar to the old Florida metro movers.....
+ADAM MARS Yes, they are... thats because they are the same vehicles! Metromover is one of the rare examples of a transit system using the C-100 (and later variant) vehicles outside of an airport.
See here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adtranz_C-100
Air-bus I get it
Might have been a brain-glitch, but wasn't these colored in polka-dots at one point?
you are correct, at one time they did carry a polka dot livery.
Simiar to heathrow pods
Expect these are not a giant basketball
+Mega Swampert 123
Do you mean the Ultra Pods which link the car park with Terminal 5?
There is also a Transit system inside T5 but that is fully enclosed and uses the latest Bombardier Innovia 200 APM.
citytransportinfo yeah I mean those ultra pods
Passengers must not smoke while in the station or traveling on the transit. Please extinguish all cigarettes.
I like that messages, because I do not and never did smoke. But in those days it was still normal for people to smoke on the mainline railway trains
citytransportinfo Back then, smoking was allowed on flights
Where is the train driver? This is unsafe train without driver, obscuring cause serious accident when they've gone out of control problem.
these are driverless - and the concept has many years of proven safe operation!