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Optimising technology to enhance train security
Date: 2011-07-08   //   Category: Rail & Metro Signalling

OPTIMISING TECHNOLOGY TO ENHANCE TRAIN SECURITY London, United Kingdom – June 16th, 2011 - Following attempts to derail an Amtrak train carrying highly flammable ethanol in the town of Menlo, Iowa on Sunday, leading transit agencies and railroads are working to enhance train security and reduce the risk of future attacks. The incident, which saw the track switchbox intentionally tampered with in the hope of causing derailment and possibly a collision, has highlighted the need for... (Read more)

IRJ summary of Signalling and Train Control 2010
Date: 2010-07-04   //   Category: Global Transport Forum News, Rail & Metro Signalling

NEVER before - at least not in my 30-odd years as a railway journalist - has a train control system aroused such passion and heated debate as ERTMS. So every time a conference is staged on the subject, you can be certain the attendance will be high and the debate lively. Global Transport Forum’s launch conference on ERTMS held in Rome last month was no exception.   ERTMS is full of contradictions. The railways that have installed it are generally very happy with it, once the initial... (Read more)

  
  
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