On 18 Nov 2011, at 16:48, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
Paul J. Ste. Marie said:
Hmm. In the UK the working timetable (not the public one) is written to a
precision of half a minute.
This wasn't the timetable. Its main purpose, as I understood it, was to
provide a record of where trains were,
In message 4528db27-ce6e-4d72-84b3-72d3ef210...@batten.eu.org, Ian Batten wri
tes:
Anyway, the average freight train in the USA is 6500 feet long (ie
substantially over a mile) and travels at an average of around
20mph, or at most 30mph.
I would expect the relevant technical case to be
Ian Batten said:
This wasn't the timetable. Its main purpose, as I understood it, was to
provide a record of where trains were, or where the dispatchers thought
they were, in the event of an accident.
Hmm, they may well be logging each track circuit transition
Track circuits? In
Poul-Henning Kamp said:
For further reading, I can recommend the ERTMS(2) family of standards,
they integrate all trains in a control-domain in a wireless network
and does away with red/green lamps.
When it works. The trial setup on the Cambrian lines doesn't seem to be
going well - it can't
On 20 Nov 2011, at 1138, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message 4528db27-ce6e-4d72-84b3-72d3ef210...@batten.eu.org, Ian Batten
wri
tes:
Anyway, the average freight train in the USA is 6500 feet long (ie
substantially over a mile) and travels at an average of around
20mph, or at most 30mph.
