Re: Automated Level Crossings

David Johnson (trainman@ozemail.com.au)
Tue, 18 Nov 1997 21:23:14 +1100

Alex Borodin wrote:

> Actually, it wouldn't do anything in an area which is using axle
> counters as the track circuit.. though I would think that there
> are very few examples of axle-counters being used for Level Crossing
> protection (if any.)

All level crossings (that I know of) use track circuiting for detection. Axle counters are
only used in CTC areas where lengthy track circuiting would be too lossy.

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David Johnson
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