01.11.2019
Artikel Nummer: 29541
The first of 280 digital interlocking systems goes online
Train traffic on Germany’s 33,400 km long rail network will be controlled by 280 digital interlocking systems (DSTWs) in future. In the coming years, high-tech systems will gradually replace more than 2,600 interlocking boxes of various designs of various ages. Some of them were built many decades ago.
Deutsche Bahn (DB) put the first digital interlocking system into operation in Rostock-Warnemünde this week. As a next step, DSTWs in Bavaria, Lower Saxony and Rhineland-Palatinate will go on stream. According to DB, 400,000 km of copper cables still must be laid to install the 280 DSTWs as planned.
With the DSTWs, setting commands are transmitted by means of high-capacity optic fibre cables to tracks, points and traffic lights. (ben)