Rail Minister hails UK’s first digitally signalled commuter railway with no lineside signals
The Northern City Line is now the UK’s first commuter route fully controlled by in-cab digital signalling.
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A ‘digital twin’ is a virtual, data-driven representation of the many characteristics and behaviours of any real-world physical asset, process or system. In the railway sector, ‘digital twins’ could be used across several different engineering, planning, and operational aspects, such as monitoring physical assets (rolling stock and infrastructure), monitoring train movements and providing information about passenger behaviour on-board trains, in stations or on platforms.
The Northern City Line is now the UK’s first commuter route fully controlled by in-cab digital signalling.
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