London’s DLR trains get new speed limit after going too fast

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New speed restrictions for DLR. DLR

Speed limits have been brought in on the automated Docklands Light Railway (DLR), after Transport for London (TfL) engineers found that the trains that snake through London’s financial district were going too fast on some parts of the track.

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