Standing around waiting for a train I noticed this
www.markvarleyphoto.co.uk/temp/Image051.jpg
Idle curiosity is getting the better of me, anyone tell me what it is?

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MarkVarley - MVP wrote:
Standing around waiting for a train I noticed this
www.markvarleyphoto.co.uk/temp/Image051.jpg
Idle curiosity is getting the better of me, anyone tell me what it is?


Its an Automatic Warning System Ramp (AWS)

http://www.railway-technical.com/sigtxt7.shtml

On 3 Mar, 10:47, MarkVarley - MVP
wrote:
Standing around waiting for a train I noticed thiswww.markvarleyphoto.co.uk/temp/Image051.jpg
Idle curiosity is getting the better of me, anyone tell me what it is?

An AWS magnet, which stops the train if it passes a non-green signal
without the driver pushing a button to acknowledge it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat...itish_Rail_AWS

To the left of it there may have been a TPWS grids, which do much the
same thing, but are more sophisticated:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_P...Warning_System

U

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On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:10:54 +0000, Great Eastern wrote
this gibberish:

MarkVarley - MVP wrote:
Standing around waiting for a train I noticed this
www.markvarleyphoto.co.uk/temp/Image051.jpg
Idle curiosity is getting the better of me, anyone tell me what it is?


Its an Automatic Warning System Ramp (AWS)

http://www.railway-technical.com/sigtxt7.shtml

Thank you :-)

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On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 03:13:33 -0800 (PST), Mr Thant
wrote this gibberish:

On 3 Mar, 10:47, MarkVarley - MVP
wrote:
Standing around waiting for a train I noticed thiswww.markvarleyphoto.co.uk/temp/Image051.jpg
Idle curiosity is getting the better of me, anyone tell me what it is?

An AWS magnet, which stops the train if it passes a non-green signal
without the driver pushing a button to acknowledge it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat...itish_Rail_AWS

To the left of it there may have been a TPWS grids, which do much the
same thing, but are more sophisticated:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_P...Warning_System

U

Thanks for the info :-)
I didn't notice a grid but I'm there again tonight so will look, I
expect it's a similar setup in all stations anyway?

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On 3 Mar, 11:41, MarkVarley - MVP
wrote:
I didn't notice a grid but I'm there again tonight so will look, I
expect it's a similar setup in all stations anyway?

And almost all platforms have a signal at the end, and every signal
has an AWS ramp, so you should see them everywhere. TPWS has only been
fitted where there's a high-than-usual risk, but you see them quite
often in stations. They're used in termini to stop trains going too
fast towards the buffers, which AWS can't.

U

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