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I get the train everyday into reading which is a mighty busy station. With so much traffic just wondered how are trains signalled ?
Do they know exactly where each train is with gps or is it by some other method?
Guess I could google it !
An army of these keep Britains trains rolling.
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It doesn't if some entrepreneurs have stolen the copper wires from the track side.
Semaphore and the will of Allah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlocking
I could bore you to death on this as once worked in Signalling and Telecoms for Railtrack then NWR.
The manufacturers of train signalling equipment are notoriously sloppy with quality control and instruction manuals...that's why my commute is regularly delayed due to singalling problems.
The above statement isn't based on fact, there just can't be any other explanation.
Where were you based on the S&T redthunder, I've been signalliing trains since 1996!
@kinda
Bristol BAth Road
then Swinedon 125 House;-)
In S&T Commercial as a QS.
I miss the railway 🙁
I've been on since I left school in 1991, the good old days of BR 😥
All down to this bloke.
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Where did you get that photo of me??
I mostly worked on TPWS and it works 🙂
A link for the truly bored:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_Protection_%26_Warning_System
@redthunder
It also seems to stop trains where there is no TPWS fitted too 😆
@kinda
😉 It was working when I left.
It also seems to stop trains where there is no TPWS fitted too
all too often!
and you will find the train operators blame signalling when it has F all to do with it!
Disgruntled passenger or Network rail employee Niloc?
NWR employee, SSM