Vancouver SkyTrain: New Mark II Cars

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New SkyTrain Mark IIs with new design livery and seat configuration.









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Significant Changes:

1. New Colour Livery and Design that reflects the current bus designs. This design will make the trains look less dirty (compared to the current Mark II vehicles).
   
   
   The colour design is also similar to the original Mark II train design for the Millennium Line:
   
2. New Seat Configuration. They removed one seat from each row on one side of the train. These seats are also the ones found on the buses.
   
3. Exterior Destination Sign right in the front of the train
4. Overhead bar on the ceiling running throughout the length of the train.

From The Buzzer Blog:

The first of 48 new SkyTrain cars has arrived at SkyTrain headquarters! I took a video because a photo couldn’t quite capture the whole train — beware, you can hear me talking in it.

Bet you didn’t expect it to be grey and blue, did you? The cars are painted to match the new livery on the bus fleet. It’s so different from the white SkyTrain cars, but you might see them mixed and matched in the future—the new cars, which are all Mark II cars, can be attached to the older white Mark II cars.

Two of the 48 cars have actually arrived: you can see one in front of the other in the video and the photos later in this post. They will be paired into a single train with that grey accordion bit in the middle. (For those that don’t know, the Mark II cars are the newer looking cars with the grey accordion gangway in the middle. Mark Is are the classic cars from the 80s.)

The new cars are currently being un-shrink-wrapped and getting some parts installed, and will then undergo testing and commissioning before starting service later this year. They also have awesome new interiors with exciting features — but I can’t share them all with you until we do an official launch in a month or so! Be patient though: I’ll be all over that when the official launch happens

And as promised, I’ve got more photos of the new cars after the jump! Click each photo for much, much larger versions.

Source: The Buzzer, TransLink