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Re: Bad attitude
- Subject: Re: Bad attitude
- From: "Paul Jones" <dj_wiseguy2@geocities.com>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 21:10:06 +1100
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- Newsgroups: aus.rail
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> The fourth generation train due to arrive in 2001-2002 will have
electronic
> destination boards inside announcing the next stop. How will they work,
does
> it detect a stop or does a guard push a button (maybe linked to the
doors?).
> If a guard has to change it we could have lots of trouble. If its operated
> by the doors thats not reliable thanks to guards opening doors twice for
> running passengers. If its operated by detecting a train stopping a signal
> will stuff up the system. And how will it know what line and service it
is?
> I imagine there will be onboard computers because I see no infrastructure
> being built to accomodate it.
A UHF data link to signal box mabey??
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