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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Ross Lydall

New DLR trains withdrawn from service after brakes 'fail to work properly' at busy London station

The first of a £1bn new fleet of trains on the Docklands Light Railway have had to be withdrawn from service over safety concerns - only weeks after Sir Sadiq Khan hailed them as “amazing”.

Transport for London has removed three of the new trains – with air conditioning and walk-through carriages – after one train failed to stop as expected during bad weather.

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