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

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@sd5.mailbank.com>]

Christopher_Martin GORDON <cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au> wrote in message
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> The location tag sends to the train then the train sends to the computer.
> There is tags at both ends of the stations.

Ok then, so it would be the same as GPS - failure of on-train equipment
would mean failing the train.

I suppose POTS does have its advantages then - only one set of equipment
system-wide, rather than two sets (GPS for surface railways and another
system for sub-surface operations).

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