Re: [Melb] POTS (Position of Trains System)

["Steven Hurst" <hurste@primus.com.au>]

Kind of like eTAG's for trains :)

Steven Hurst
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Christopher_Martin GORDON <cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au> wrote in message
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> Melbourne is getting a new system for knowing where the trains are and
> what they are.  Each trailer carrage will be fitted with a transponder
> and then on sleepers through out the suburban system have things to
> pick this up, then the information send will be T.R. number, train
> consist, etc..
>
> This is to replace the existing system of TNT (Train Number Transmitters)
> machines.  Noticed on the electrail trip yeaterday were these things on
the
> sleepers at both ends of the station at both Ferntree Gully and Upwey.
>
> I think this is the first section to get the POTS things, since the
current
> set up between Ringwood and Upper Ferntree Gully uses bell codes and not
> the TNT machines, like most sections do (Finge Boxes to Metrol use the
VT100
> machines)
>
> For a photo of one of these yellow thingy on the sleepers have a look at:
> http://www.ecr.mu.oz.au/~cmgord/trains/current/pots.jpg
>
>
>
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