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Old December 29th 11, 11:25 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.europe
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Default Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System - could it happen here...??

On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:30:37 -0800 (PST)
SB wrote:
Berliners joked that it could not possibly get worse, but today (15
Dec 2011) the S-Bahn proved that it could, indeed, because it has a
single point of failure. All switches, all electronic signals, all
information is centralized in one station in Halensee. And the


Probably designed by the same geniuses that thought linking train door
interlocks in new trains to GPS signals was a good idea. The driver now can't
open the doors by mistake when the train isn't at a station. No, but neither
could he open the doors where the GPS signal is poor like in, oh I don't know,
stations that have an office block about them that block the signal such as
at London Victoria. And of course if someone has a GPS blocker handy ...

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