Train protection and control system

Railway switches and signals – Cab signal or train control – Magnetic rail

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246187B, 325 37, B61L 312

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040870677

ABSTRACT:
A train safety and control system utilizing at least one transmitter disposed at the railway right-of-way for the transmission of orders necessary for train traffic control and for the wireless exchange of general information between a track control center and trains moving in the associated right-of-way section, with a data processing installation being provided at the track control center for the cyclical determination of orders in the form of dynamic signals, in which the operational availability of the data processing system is monitored at the track control center, whereby at a predetermined operational readiness of the data process system a pilot sound generator is continuously activated, whose signals are conducted over the same transmission path of the transmitter as the orders for the traction vehicles, a switching device being provided in the vehicle responsive in dependence upon the presence of a received pilot sound signal for controlling the conduction of received control orders to responsive control apparatus on such vehicle.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3639755 (1972-02-01), Wrege
patent: 3766523 (1973-10-01), Brocker

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