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« Reply #540 on: June 17, 2011, 15:06:25 » |
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Does anyone have any news on the installation of the new CIS▸ and PA▸ at Exeter Central?
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« Reply #541 on: June 19, 2011, 00:21:24 » |
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Exeter Central has had all of its Next Trains Indicators fitted, all working except the ones on Platform 3, few PA▸ speakers have been replaced on the footbridge, and also up the end of P1/2 however these ones don't work yet. No summary screens yet, I'd imagine due to be completed next week. Even Platform 1 which rarely gets used has a Next Train Indicator!
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« Reply #542 on: June 19, 2011, 08:05:46 » |
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Exeter Central has had all of its Next Trains Indicators fitted, all working except the ones on Platform 3, few PA▸ speakers have been replaced on the footbridge, and also up the end of P1/2 however these ones don't work yet. No summary screens yet, I'd imagine due to be completed next week. Even Platform 1 which rarely gets used has a Next Train Indicator!
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« Reply #543 on: June 19, 2011, 09:18:54 » |
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When is platform 1 used?
Nothing is booked, however when the line between St Davids and Central is closed on sunday mornings some trains start there. |
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« Reply #544 on: June 20, 2011, 12:11:33 » |
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Telent were all over Goring & Streatley this morning, looking at all the wiring to the PA▸ and other areas. Still doesn't look like anything more has happened to the bridge though, maybe the need the cables in place to hold all the rotten framework together  |
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« Reply #545 on: June 21, 2011, 11:35:08 » |
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I just red in Northern's in house magazine about their scheme on the Esk Valley. Will this help some of the Devon and Cornwall branches
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« Reply #546 on: June 21, 2011, 11:39:42 » |
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It might, if we knew what it said!
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« Reply #547 on: June 21, 2011, 13:33:11 » |
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It might, if we knew what it said!
It's been in one of the rail mags as well, IIRC▸ it uses GPS and conventional mobile phone technology to report a much more accurate unit position to the TOC▸ control room, effectively bypassing the signalling system, and the control room then push the info out to update the station displays - which I think are cheap and cheerful devices based on mobile phone technology as well... Found this using Google: http://www.passengertransport.co.uk/2011/06/northern-rail-trials-gps-to-track-trains/Paul |
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« Reply #548 on: June 21, 2011, 13:37:29 » |
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Hmmm - do they not realise that vast swathes of rural England have no mobile reception still? And thus this won't work in those areas....
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« Reply #549 on: June 21, 2011, 13:59:43 » |
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Hmmm - do they not realise that vast swathes of rural England have no mobile reception still? And thus this won't work in those areas....
Isn't the North York Moors a good example of one of those areas though? Presumably why (as the article explains) it uses more than one network provider? Paul |
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« Reply #550 on: June 21, 2011, 14:25:32 » |
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But no network provider is usually the case....for example, go survey the Cotswold Line....
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« Reply #551 on: June 21, 2011, 14:28:07 » |
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This week's update..... Installations completed last week:
CIS▸ and PA▸ at Nailsea & Backwell
SE installations planned for this week:
CCTV▸ , PA and CIS at Romsey, CIS at Exeter Central, CIS and PA at Goring & Streatley, CCTV and PA at Weston-Super-Mare |
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« Reply #552 on: June 21, 2011, 16:09:22 » |
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I holiday frequently in the North Yorkshire Moors. It is virtually impossible to get signal, especially in the Esk Valley, so I don't quite understand that.
Oh and sorry for not putting a link to it. I can't find it online.
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« Reply #553 on: June 21, 2011, 16:48:28 » |
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But no network provider is usually the case....for example, go survey the Cotswold Line....
The GSM-P telephones in the cabs of Turbos use Vodafone as the network provider and there is virtually nowhere on the line of route, save the depths of Campden Tunnel, where at least one bar of signal strength isn't available. I wouldn't be surprised if Vodafone had to make sure that was the case in order to win the contract, but what's to say that might not happen on other lines too? |
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To view my GWML▸ Electrification cab video 'before and after' video comparison, as well as other videos of the new layout at Reading and 'before and after' comparisons of the Cotswold Line Redoubling scheme, see: http://www.dailymotion.com/user/IndustryInsider/ |
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« Reply #554 on: June 21, 2011, 17:46:10 » |
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Is that proper GSM(R), or the portable IVRS▸ - which is having to be used because of the new axle counter train detection?
I didn't think the mainstream commercial operators had anything to do with GSM(R)?
Paul
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