Bearing in mind that the age of the signalling on the London end is older by twenty years not really. And its totally knackered might have something to do with it as well..
Fitting a radio aerial (or TPWS receiver) is not quite the same as fitting a brand new Driver Machine Interface which includes a screen that will display the Signalling Authorities and also needs a beacon reader and doppler radar underneath.
Agreed, it is not. But it demonstrates that where there is a will (and sufficient money) there is a way.
Critical factor. There's a solution to any problem, if.you can fund it.
This is an NR project who seem to avoid publishing any firm dates for Entry Into Service. Looks at TRU same vagueness there.
Plenty of possessions booked for it in 2024.
do you mean the Moorgate branch
No, south end of the ECML
possessions for what then? whole point of ETCS is to drastically reduce the need for lineside kit and thus possessions to install.
No idea, i dont have the details to hand.
They'll have to install the balises at the very least, no?
Balises and Marker boards, not to mention any layout changes, redundant kit removal and signalling disconnections required for any changes to the workstations.
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Once in place, would I be right in my understand that ETCS track equipment will only need to be modified during track/layout changes.
Yes you're right on both points.
Balises can be done under line blockages shouldn't need to be taking full possessions for that. Constructing bases for signals, especially as on the four track sections as they would have had to be converted to gantries, is the biggest driver of possessions for resignalling schemes outside of testing activities so as signals are going should be saving considerable access needs. Also given its paired running even cess work should allow teh centre roads to be kept open so only local services need bustitution.
Red zone working and line blockages are effectively banned and you have adjacent line open issues as well. Weekend revenue totals about the same as a Monday into Tuesday morning currently.
They can get more work done in a single possession than they can in a series of blockages. For example, on a four-track section of railway they can work on all four tracks at the same time - one full weekend possession equates to at least six and potentially as many as eight day-long line blockages.
Interesting you mention testing activities. I'm not involved with this so this is pure guesswork and could be cobblers, but it if I was involved I'd be looking at getting existing interlocking's interfaces (assuming at least some are to be reused) to the Radio Block Centres cut in and tested on a rolling program to use design/install/test resource efficiently. That way, when they switch over to ETCS, the RBCs have been ready and waiting to give Movement Authorities for months. Possessions would be handy for getting that kind of thing on the go maybe.....
ETCS Level 2 and up require on track balises but almost all will be "passive" balises that merely tell the train that it is now passing a certain point.
I think it just needs you to create a vimeo account. It don't think you need an IRSE login or anything like that
