Here's my first transit video on my visit to Vancouver this year, riding on the Bombardier Mark III (Innovia Metro 300) set 413-416 from Metrotown to Stadium-Chinatown. It's somewhat of a logical continuation of the Mark III that I filmed last year, taking it from Lougheed Town Centre to Metrotown. There are still seven Mark III sets in service, however the second batch of Mark III sets has begun to arrive and set 429-432 started its tests a few days ago before entering service. Such tests require the set to undergo 80 km of running during the night, 8 hours of testing during the daytime, and a few runs with passengers onboard.
The Mark III SkyTrain, like all other trains in the system, are fully automated powered by linear motors, but these are the first to have walk-through carriages throughout the whole four-car set. Previous Mark II trains are coupled in pairs (cannot walk between cars 2 and 3) and Mark I trains have a shorter body with all cars detached on the inside running in a 6-car formation since late 2016. Identical trains also operate on the Kelana Jaya Line on the rapidKL system in Kuala Lumpur which I filmed last year. Their units lack transverse seats while its bench seats are hard plastic, and are configured with different sounding motors and different HVAC units.
In contrast to the last Mark III video last year, the section here is part of the initial SkyTrain segment opened in January 1986, running from Waterfront to New Westminster. On the guideway east of Main Street-Science World, it has a slightly different design as that 1 km section was a demo segment completed in 1983. The simple design of the stations and the use of automated trains make the SkyTrain resemble quite a bit to the Docklands Light Railway in London, which I have a video of it that I'll post soon.
Coming from Montreal to Vancouver on this trip, I was on Air Canada's Boeing 737 MAX C-FSES on December 8, and that I will post later in the month.
Camera: GoPro Hero 5 Black
My Flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kalung1/Bombardier Innovia Metro:
https://flic.kr/s/aHsm1SxUwNSkyTrain:
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HIGHLIGHTS:
00:05 - Metrotown
01:28 - Patterson
03:47 - Joyce-Collingwood
05:35 - 29th Avenue
07:10 - Nanaimo
09:31 - Commercial-Broadway. Change here for the Millennium Line, exit here for the 99 B-Line. Note the new platform to the right, scheduled to open soon.
12:59 - Main Street-Science World. Exit here for long-distance rail and bus services from Pacific Central Station
15:07 - Stadium-Chinatown
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBAyEkO5BlA