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High speed or high capacity signalling? 02/07/2013 at 22:52 #46271
maxand
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1637 posts 		In Melbourne, Australia there is a north-eastern suburb named Doncaster.

The Victorian state government is proposing to build a rail line to terminate there, as there is already a large shopping centre (Westfield Doncaster).

The Age newspaper today talks about investing in "new high-speed signalling that would allow trains to run closer together."

Solution offered on Doncaster dilemma

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Dr Morton said some European cities had high-speed signalling systems that enabled trains to run together at headways of less than two minutes.

The London Underground was bringing in high-speed signalling at a cost of about $2.5 million euros ($3.5 million) a kilometre, he said.

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Instead, URS' study proposed running buses between Westfield and Doncaster Park and Ride about a minute apart.

''In our view that's a better value-for-money arrangement,'' Mr Gosbell said. High-speed signalling would not fix capacity constraints in the City Loop and at Flinders Street Station.
What kind of signalling is being referred to here? Movable-block signalling?
Last edited: 02/07/2013 at 22:54 by maxand
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High speed or high capacity signalling? 02/07/2013 at 23:01 #46272
GeoffM
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6288 posts 		It could be in-cab signalling and/or some sort of automatic operation. Going back to the UK, the core Thameslink section between St. Pancras and Blackfriars with the aim of 150s headways (IIRC), it would be unachievable without some form of automatic operation. However, lineside signals are still proposed but with possibly shorter sections.
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