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[April 14, 2006]

Tokyo unmanned transit system remains suspended after accident+

(Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)TOKYO, April 15_(Kyodo) _ Train services of the Yurikamome, an unmanned transit system that connects waterfront areas along Tokyo Bay, remained suspended Saturday following an accident the previous day, the operator of the train line said.

The services remain suspended pending the removal of the troubled train from the tracks and a probe by the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry's Aircraft and Railway Accidents Investigation Commission.

The six-car train carrying some 230 passengers came to a halt Friday afternoon near Fune-no-kagakukan Station. Nobody was injured in the incident.

The accident occurred after an axle of a car of the train was damaged for unspecified reasons and the wheel came off. A malfunction in a speed controller was reported three minutes before the accident, which forced the train to stop temporarily, the operator, the Tokyo Waterfront New Transit System, said.

The transportation, largely used by sightseers in the Tokyo Bay waterfront areas, connects Tokyo's Shimbashi and Toyosu stations. It is operated by computer without conductors and drivers, and its trains have rubber tires and run on elevated tracks.

The Yurikamome started operations in November 1995. Its operator is 67.7 percent owned by the Tokyo metropolitan government.

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