Extremely short separation between two trains
This article here reports that the Swiss Federal Railways are able to achieve separation times of 100 seconds between two trains running at 160 km/h (~100 mph) on the new rail line between Mattstetten (Bern) and Rothrist (Olten). And this with a system that uses fixed lineside signals! Not bad, I think…
Posted in: Uncategorized | December 13, 2004 3:20 pm
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Peet, on December 14, 2004 @ 12:48 pm
Since a long time Swiss Railways have been doing a good job in optimising infrastructure use. Look also on the train speed optimation in Killwangen. Even before the sophisticated new signal system was in use the trains got order to control their speed to avoid signal stops. It was done by the stationmaster showing a special board called “Fahrtregelungstafel”. Nowadays the speed control orders come often over the radio.
Marcel Marchon, on December 14, 2004 @ 1:03 pm
Yes, that line is an interesting one. I remember that I used to ride that line quite often on Sunday evenings years ago and sometimes the dispatchers would have two trains (the one from Baden and the one I was on from Lenzburg) running in parallel (I think that was even before they put in the flyover) from Killwangen sometimes all the way to Altstetten or even further.
Of course, now that there are 4 main tracks all the way from Killwangen to the Hauptbahnhof in Zurich, this is somewhat easier to do still.
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