(United Kingdom )BIRMINGHAM

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Air-Rail 1	Air-Rail 2

BIRMINGHAM
Birmingham Air-Rail is an automated cable system (fixed rope) which operates connecting Birmingham International Airport (5th UK airport, with about 8 millions pax/year) to the Multi Modal Intherchange point at the airport railway station.
This cable systems has replaced a previous magnetic levitation people-mover (Maglev) that has been in service from 1984 to 1995, because of its many technical problems (signalling troubles during snowy days, car body overweight, etc) which caused many service interruptions.
Air-Rail has been realized and operated by Doppelmayr; it consists in two simple and detached 600 m long tracks, without switches and communications between tracks.

Birmingham International Airport (official site)

CHRONOLOGY
1984	Airport Terminal-Airport Railway Station MAGLEV system
1995	MAGLEV system withdrawn
March 2003	MMI Station-Airport Station cable system

Country	United Kingdom
Line	Air-Rail
Inhabitants	City 2.270.000
Date opening	2003
Future development:	--
Length (km)	0.6
Track sections	2 single coupled and detached tracks (on viaduct)
Stops	2
Platforms	central
Platform doors	yes
General characteristics	length 13.6, width 5.50
n. of vehicles	2
n. of cars per vehicle	2
Type	rubber tyres
Vehicle dimensions (m)	--
Vehicle capacity (pax)	54
Frequency	2/ min
Current/Voltage	cable traction
Type of guide/gauge	steel running surfaces
Speed Km/h	Max 36
Accel./Decel. (m/sec2)	0.4/0.4
System capacity	1600 pphpd
Ridership	--
Total cost	18.5 M Pounds/km
Staff	--
System builder	DOPPELMAYR
Model	Cable Liner Shuttle
NOTE	Air-Rail replaces a previous Maglev people-mover