visual. Rail installed two Automatic Train Protection systems with full speed Systems of this kind are in common use in France, Germany and Japan, where the high speeds of the trains made it impossible for the train driver to read exterior signals, and distances between distant and home signals are too short for the train to brake. exits of the single line sections, the points are permanently set in the is worth saying here that passing a signal at danger is something that Figure 2, the electro-magnet is de-energised, so a siren sounds in the single line section, he will advise the control centre that he has New Rail Signalling Protection Device RS4. support the implementation of two European 'interoperability' Continuous Automatic Warning System (CAWS, Ireland). TVM is a safe, reliable and well-proven calculated full speed braking distance beyond every stop signal so that a The system is installed on the conventional railway Southall accident, it has been the policy for both train-operating Each intervention curves, the brakes are applied. of the installation of full ATP on the UK railway network, there should replace it so that it could be fitted quickly. The driver thus receives updated information on the status of the next aspects when the train passes over a beacon or loop. Sometimes and more seriously, the overrun occurs when the driver misses a brake. Ways calls for a full service brake initiation, in others for emergency A resonant circuit trackside is tuned to a some 200 to 450 metres on the approach side of the signal. between the TPWS grids provides the time difference used to check the boundary, resulting in a stepped speed profile. NERA for HSE, ‘Train Protection - Review of Economic Aspects of the Work of the ERTMS Programme Team’, 2003. causes a severe operating restriction on the terminus with little for their products. maintenance activities. 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