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    Automatic train protection (ATP) is the generic term for train protection systems that continually check that the speed of a train is compatible with the...
    2 KB (115 words) - 10:57, 9 April 2024
  • Kavach (lit. 'Armour') is an automatic train protection (ATP) system indigenously developed by Indian Railways through Research Designs & Standards Organisation...
    18 KB (1,823 words) - 13:42, 29 April 2024
  • A train protection system is a railway technical installation to ensure safe operation in the event of human error. The earliest systems were train stops...
    12 KB (974 words) - 17:37, 23 April 2024
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    A crocodile is a component of train protection systems used in France and Belgium. It works similarly to the Automatic Warning System (AWS) used in the...
    3 KB (355 words) - 16:29, 29 December 2023
  • The Train Protection & Warning System (TPWS) is a train protection system used throughout the British passenger main-line railway network, and in Victoria...
    24 KB (3,246 words) - 22:50, 4 April 2024
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    Automatic train control (ATC) is a general class of train protection systems for railways that involves a speed control mechanism in response to external...
    31 KB (4,179 words) - 04:40, 19 April 2024
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    The European Train Control System (ETCS) is a train protection system designed to replace the many incompatible systems used by European railways, and...
    148 KB (16,328 words) - 12:21, 7 May 2024
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    Elizabeth line (redirect from Purple train)
    branch started using the European Train Control System (ETCS) in 2020. The Automatic Warning System (AWS) and Train Protection & Warning System (TPWS) are used...
    80 KB (4,938 words) - 08:19, 8 May 2024
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    Positive train control (PTC) is a family of automatic train protection systems deployed in the United States. Most of the United States' national rail...
    74 KB (8,865 words) - 19:13, 22 April 2024
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    signaling, and locomotives, producing high-speed, suburban, regional and urban trains along with trams. The company and its name (originally spelled Alsthom)...
    82 KB (7,897 words) - 03:10, 16 May 2024
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    location of nearby trains, and dynamic information about the track ahead. Cab signals can also be part of a more comprehensive train protection system that can...
    17 KB (2,268 words) - 21:21, 30 January 2024
  • Automatic Train Protection (ATP) is a method of beacon based railway cab signalling developed by British Rail. The system is only installed on the Great...
    14 KB (1,662 words) - 02:31, 2 April 2024
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    signalling system, a train stop, trip stop or tripcock (sometimes called a tripper) is a train protection device that automatically stops a train if it attempts...
    16 KB (2,335 words) - 09:37, 2 April 2024
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    interlocking include: Signals may not be operated to permit conflicting train movements to take place at the same time on set route. Switches and other...
    25 KB (2,932 words) - 16:38, 13 January 2024
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    assess competencies Automatic train protection (ATP) is an advanced form of train stop which can regulate the speed of trains in situations other than at...
    29 KB (2,641 words) - 23:07, 13 February 2024
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    being installed in 1996. Advances in train protection systems, especially decision to install Train Protection & Warning System in response to The Railway...
    62 KB (8,489 words) - 14:18, 11 May 2024
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    Balise (category Train protection systems)
    transponder placed between the rails of a railway as part of an automatic train protection (ATP) system. The French word balise is used to distinguish these beacons...
    12 KB (1,621 words) - 08:55, 8 January 2024
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    Railway signal (redirect from Train signal)
    Railway signalling Train protection system Train speed optimization Armstrong, John (1957). "All About Signals" (Two-article series). Trains Magazine, June...
    26 KB (3,180 words) - 18:06, 8 February 2024
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    bidirectional train-to-wayside data communications; and trainborne and wayside processors capable of implementing automatic train protection (ATP) functions...
    68 KB (3,884 words) - 17:53, 8 May 2024
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    high-speed train operations. A level crossing at Hoylake, Merseyside, England, with a train passing An active level crossing in Japan, 2022, train approaching...
    32 KB (2,861 words) - 14:16, 29 April 2024
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