Railway Gazette- JR East recovery after quake

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Interesting news about ATACS on the Senseki Line:

 

Seizo Sato, General Manager of the railway’s Electrical & Signal Network Department, told delegates to the Signalling & Train Control conference in København that the Atacs moving-block signalling system being piloted on the Senseki Line (RG 3.11 p43) had escaped with little damage, thanks to the minimal amount of lineside equipment. Other than a few balises and a bent radio mast, the equipment was still functional, and most onboard equipment survived except for one train that had been washed off the track.

 

Repairs are due to be completed this month, and shadow running will resume in July. Allowing two months for testing, Sato said Atacs would go live in September, just six months later than scheduled. After four weeks of revenue service operation, work would start to dismantle the conventional signalling, he explained.

 

article:

http://www.railwaygazette.com/nc/news/single-view/view/jr-east-gets-back-on-track.html

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Dismantle the conventional signaling system?!

 

Ouch! This is very positively and forwarding thinking... well, I guess not having to maintain and invest in a conventional signaling system will have a positive effect on their financial balance.