Re: Another City Rail Signalling Question

dave pierson (pierson@gone.enet.dec.com)
10 APR 98 08:37:30

In article <1998040707551800.DAA02561@ladder01.news.aol.com>, markbau1@aol.com (MarkBau1) writes...
><<<<<This whole thing is, with due respect to Mark, a beat-up. There is not a
>problem.
>Let's not invent problems which don't exist. There are enough ones which
>do.>>>>>>

>Eddie, there is a problem if you get tripped when travelling at or under the
>speed limit and you have complete control of your train.

><<<<Speed proving has been existence in Sydney since the Underground was
>built in the 1920's.>>>>>

>Really?, the earliest reference I can find about speed proving by the society
>of British Signal Engineers, (where Australia got all of its signalling
>practices) is mid '50's.

I Don't know where it originated, but timed signalling, to enforce
speeds, was in US Practice (transit subway only?) by ca 1920.

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