Will Mount Druitt Have Driverless Trains In Future Years To Come?

Why do I Ask this question now? Simply because we have the CEO of Sydney Trains, Howard Collins on board, former the chief operating officer of the London Underground. So this means what ever he has learned from the London Underground, will be passed over to our Sydney Trains.

In the London Underground, they are introducing 250 driverless trains in the mid 2020's Click here for information .We are having driverless trains starting on the North/West Rail Link Click here for more information.

This could mean that Mr Collins could be looking to implement the same within the Sydney Trains network, within the next few years as well but there are major issues that would need to be resolved first. Our current train carriages, will not reach same level heights meeting the floor level to the platforms. Each train station platform has different level of heights, where as for example Mount Druitt, the Trains floor is normally higher then platform. This is why there is station assistance with wheelchair access commuters.

Simply, if the Sydney Trains were to focus on leveling all  train station platforms heights as being done during the construction of the Northwest Rail link, on all Sydney Train Station then drivers trains would be easier to release into the network.

Have a look at this for example:


State Member for Mount Druitt, Edmond Atalla, a qualified engineer would understand this and advocate for this in NSW Parliament. If he does, we hope he would notify us of this and provide a copy of his speech or video, if he raises this issue in NSW Parliament.