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Railway Gazette 1995 September Network control absorbs the signalling function
Railway Gazette 1995 September
Contents
CLEAR SIGNALS FOR A DECADE OF CHANGE557
WESTECT ATP GOES LIVE IN QUEENSLAND559Solid-state interlockings between Rockhampton and Townsville continuously broadcast signal status, so that trains in the area can calculate safe speeds, braking curves and target speeds, and thus monitor driver performance
RELIABILITY DEMANDS THE SIMPLIFICATION OF TRAIN CONTROL TECHNIQUES561Traditional railway signalling principles have resulted in multilevel train control systems, which constrain the flexibility of railway operations, while complex structures have also reduced reliability
BN OPENS THE WORLD'S BIGGEST CONTROL CENTRE567Dispatching and train management for the whole of Burlington Northern's 37350 route-km will be managed from a single centre in Fort Worth by the end of next year
EUROPE'S FIRST TRUNK LINE TO BE SIGNALLED BY RADIO571Bids were invited on July 14 for development of a complete transmission-based train control system to be installed on Britain's West Coast Main Line, eliminating most lineside equipment
SATELLITES SUPPORT TRAIN ORDER WORKING575Token working in New South Wales outside the electrified territory around Sydney is being replaced by voice or data transmission of train orders as Freight Rail seeks to cut costs and improve operations; trains report their position continuously using global positioning satellites
PERFORMANCE CONTRACT TIES INVESTMENT TO PRODUCTIVITY585Italian State Railways has cut 80000 staff from the payroll over the last seven years. Managing Director Antonio Lorenzo Necci highlights the main points of the 1995-2000 performance contract to Murray Hughes
BUILDERS AT WORK AT II ROMA - NAPOLI SITES589After years of rumors and false starts, contractors are at last busy on the alignment of Italy's first 300 km/h railway
'THE RISKS ARE ALL BUT ELIMINATED' 591The Roma - Firenze direttissima took 22 years to build. Italferr General Manager Dott-Ing Carlo Ianniello and High Speed Projects Manager Ing Massimo Palliccia explain why things are different in the 1990s
FS TO COMPLETE FLEET UPDATE IN FIVE YEARS595Dott-Ing Giancarlo Piro discusses plans for updating the FS fleet
CISALPINO FACES TIGHT TIMETABLE597Nine dual-voltage third generation Pendolino trainsets are being built for inter-city services between Switzerland and northern Italy
PRODUCT NEWS599
DIARY600
PUBLICATIONS600
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