Sentence examples for platform doors from inspiring English sources

At other times, the rear platform doors will be closed between stops.

AirTrain employees had to open the platform doors manually to let the passengers out.

At 9 30 p.m. Wednesday, officials shut down the entire system because problems were being reported with the platform doors in several terminals.

When the train and platform doors slide shut, passengers can wander the length of the articulated train to the lead car and watch the lights in the tunnel beneath the Seine flash past, the view unimpeded by any driver.

Just hours after its high-profile debut, the AirTrain system had to be shut down by the Port Authority for two hours Wednesday night because platform doors failed to open and trapped passengers in their trains.

The authority has committed itself to a pilot program to test platform doors on the L line, but Thomas Prendergast, the authority's acting executive director and the president of New York City Transit, said installing doors throughout the system would cost an estimated $1 billion.

Back at Gesundbrunnen U-Bahn, we push through an unmarked platform door and into West Berlin's Cold War bunkers.

The entire Tung Chung Line and Airport Express, as well those stations added by the Tseung Kwan O Line, has platform screen doors (PSDs), ordered from Swiss glass door manufacturer Kaba Gilgen AG, installed upon construction.

Platform screen doors fully enclose the platform edge, and are synchronized to open and close with the vehicle doors to allow access and egress to and from the vehicle.

Amid a spate of deaths on New York's subway tracks, Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials cautioned on Monday that any plan to install platform safety doors throughout the system could be prohibitively expensive, but they introduced another possibility: a high-tech system that would detect a person on the tracks.

Pressure transients were measured using pressure sensors on platform screen doors and car body surfaces.