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Rather than shutting horizontally like 'conventional' doors, the openings launched on metro carriages in Spain's second-largest city close vertically.
A large panel which goes up to let passengers off and then down to enclose them means less likelihood of commuters racing to get their train being trapped between closing doors.
The vertically-opening entrances are also wider, allowing more travellers on or off at the same time, and helping ease boarding and alighting for wheelchair users, says head of strategic projects for the metro company, Ramón Malla.
Also, the doors do not have to align exactly with the platform, meaning a less-painstaking stopping exercise for train drivers.
If the upwardly-opening doors turn out to be more convenient and efficient overall, they will be fitted to all Barcelona's metro trains in the future, Malla says.
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