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ratio53yesterday at 9:37 PM3 repliesview on HN

I wonder how they managed to tell trains to stop.


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lxgryesterday at 10:37 PM

Stop signals. For legacy train control systems, these still work visually and via wires. ETCS (starting with Level 2) does use GSM-R, but everything is fail-safe: No active communication, no movement authority, so the "virtual signal" display in the cab will pretty quickly also show "stop".

Glawenyesterday at 10:03 PM

Deutsche Bahn trains stop themselves all the time, no need to tell them

sc11yesterday at 9:39 PM

Signalling still works, so you can let the trains continue to a safe place like a station and then not let them leave until the radio issue is resolved

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