DEVICE TO CONTROL TRAIN SPEED ON STATION SIDINGS Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: railway transport; signalling and communication; transmission of signals limiting speed of running along station tracks and control of tolerable train speed. SUBSTANCE: purpose of proposed invention is to increase reliability and safety of traffic on station tracks in case of failure of point transmitters. With use of proposed invention there is no necessity to install expensive point communication channels at station siding outlets. If track generator 1 of track section number at station outlet fails, recorder 19, basing on information from siding and track switch speed limit value provides by recording control, through OR gate 18, of state of corresponding internal station block section parameter storage distributor 17, according to route No. signal. At equal speed limits on several routes, the route is selected from storage whose length is minimum and then locomotive operates according to cab signalling. EFFECT: improved safety, both on sections between stations and at station sidings and with use of semiautomatic blocking on sections between stations. 11 dwg