Re: Magic Trains!!

["Notagunzel" <notagunzel@bigfoot.com>]

pdwyer <pdwyerNOpdSPAM@ecn.net.au.invalid> wrote in message
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> In article <3880374B.CD62C3@one.net.au>, John Godfrey
> <jgodfrey@one.net.au> wrote:

> > Why cannot there now be some form of alarm to alert a signalmen
> > that a BLOODY train just does not lift-off the tracks and
> > complete its journey as a 747 jet!!!

> QR's UTC system does just that.

I assume it does this via the train describer somehow?

'Cause if i take my 20c piece and do what 20c pieces do, and then put it
back in my pocket, does the UTC panic over the 'train' that disappeared?

> There's also a 'slug' of four seconds on tracks to prevent false
> indications/operations due to tracks 'bobbing'.

That's normal for a 'real' railway normally. |-)

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Mr Notagunzel.
Rail Transportation Connoisseur
notagunzel@bigfoot.com
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