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Re: FreightCorp Radios

On Wed, 07 Jan 1998 20:49:00 +1100, David Johnson
<trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>Maurie Daly wrote:
>
>> Even so , the system on its own is only barely better than nothing,in that if
>> a driver misinterprets an order , or a controller gives an incorrect order the
>> 1st the controller will know about the head on , is when someone rings him up
>> to tell him.
>
>I still think that the best system of train monitoring would be GPS.  I was under
>the impression that Orange control had this equipment, and could monitor the
>position and speed of all trains under its control...  Does anyone know more about
>this system?
>
The Orange GPS is good when it works , it just doesn't work all of the
time. It also gives out the wrong position of the train, and has
phantom trains on the screen. Apart from that safe as houses.
Peter