Two tender locomotives were used to demonstrate the Angus automatic train control equipment; they had originally been West Midland Railway 2-4-0s numbers 103 and 104.
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Electrification of the line was completed in February 1979, and semi-automatic train control was installed on the entirety of the line at the same time.
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Automatic train control cannot eliminate accidents because some trains will not have enough track to slow down in time to prevent a crash, experts said.
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Shirley A . DeLibero, the agency's executive director, said installation of an automatic train control system has long been part of New Jersey Transit's plans.
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This accident, following the Jokela rail accident two years before, showed the importance of the automatic train control system, which could have prevented both of them.
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These trains are mainly for airport connections and light rail in towns, operating by Automatic Train Control ( ATC ), making it fully automatic and driverless.
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The NTSB found that Train 214 had come to a stop entirely within the faulty circuit B2-304, making it effectively invisible to the automatic train control system.
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New Jersey Transit said that 50 percent of its 512 miles of track and 80 percent of its 715 vehicles are equipped with the automatic train controls.
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Plans include the testing the Thales automatic train control system for London Underground, and new mainline infrastructure such as the Series One OCS system by Network Rail.
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Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority had Automatic Train Control on 80 % of its system, and was planning to install it in the other 20 % by 2014.
