New trains: Doors and automatic sliding step

Feb 15, 2022
A first look at the automatic sliding step on Metro’s new train fleet
Here are the first photos of our new train fleet’s automatic sliding step and doors.
The sliding step is a key feature of the new fleet, making life easier for thousands of customers when boarding and alighting by eliminating the gap between the train and the platform edge.
They will be located at every door of the new trains, making boarding easier for Metro’s 50,000 wheelchair customers as well as people with children’s buggies, luggage or bicycles.
The new boarding system is being made by the Schaltbau Bode Group at their factory in the city of Kassel in central Germany.
Nexus conducted a First Article Inspection visit last week to check the product and the factory where it is going to be manufactured. The Bode factory has undergone a complete refit following severe flash flooding there in May 2019.
When the sliding step and door systems are completed they will be transported to the Stadler assembly line in Switzerland for installation on each of the new trains as they near completion.