11/14/2022 0 Comments Software arsip digital underground![]() ![]() Much less talked about is the fact that London Underground have had a digital railway on a number of lines for some time, are busy implementing it on four more lines and are planning to convert the remainder. On Network Rail there is very little to show currently except for a few miles of Thameslink track – although to be fair, what they have got is quite impressive. ![]() Network Rail and the Secretary of State for Transport miss few opportunities to tell the public that things will be better in future because we will have a digital railway. We hear a lot these days about the ‘digital railway’ – which is often taken to mean automated trains. With the publication of an item on legacy signalling for the Programmes and Investment Committee and various other recent publications, it seems a good time to look at the London Underground Signalling strategy, and the digital railway revolution already quietly underway underground. On a modern metro railway it is now more positively seen as an enabler that helps maximise capacity. In times gone by it was often regarded as something one unfortunately needed to run trains safely. The railway’s attitude to signalling has changed a lot in the past few decades. ![]()
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