Re: CityRail upgrades platform! (shock!)

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

McFergus@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> Aren't suburban and intercity EMUs fitted with an arial (the square plate
> mounted underneath the emergency gangway connection at the front/end of each
> train) to allow the train to communicate with transponders on the track,
> facilitating automated triggering of the DVAs both on platforms and on the
> train (when fitted)?

Those aerials are to automatically change the train radio area number.

> Does anyone know anything about the technical aspects of the station DVAs?
> They look a bit like old Amiga 1200s!

The old ones were modified Amigas.  The new ones are IBM compats (not very high
processing power) running NT 4.0 Workstation.

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David Johnson
CityRail Guard
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