Rail signal computer trial
- basically they have a single track with trains going both ways in wales, they want to put some 'position locators at 1 mile intervals' on the sides of the tracks, which are then read by some on-train system which sends the trains location to a control center. The control center then tells the train to slow down if it's catching up with another one.
the system called ERTMS 'will enable trains to travel safely closer together at high speed'
'dependent on mobile phone technology'
'long term - could save the rail industry hundreds of millions of pounds each year because thousands of line-side signals will be made redundant'
'less signal workers will be needed, any job losses may be balanced by the creation of hundreds of engineering posts needed to install the system.'
'could eventually result in trains being driven by the new technology rather than drivers'

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