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Command and Control

Planning services for command and control systems

skip: Planning services for command and control systems

The key services provided by the Command/Control Planning Services Unit are detail engineering, project coordination and monitoring and technical testing.

The Bahnbau Group has personnel qualified to work on railway command/control systems who are familiar with the techniques and engineering methods used by the former West German Bundesbahn and the East German Reichsbahn.

The service portfolio comprises:

Construction, rebuilding and modification of mechanical, electromechanical, relay and geographical interlocking systems
Block systems and level-crossing protection systems
Train control systems and operations command/control technology
Rationalised solutions housed in prefabricated relay containers or specially equipped concrete switching boxes
Reorganisation (decommissioning, regrouping) of interlockings
Track infrastructure for electronic interlocking installations

Example projects:

Assignment: Conversion work to accommodate the Mannheim-Rheinau EI (Bombardier B 950)

Client: Bombardier Transportation, Braunschweig

Planning period: November 2004 until May 2005

Services rendered:

Detail engineering – Project part II
Conversion work at Schwetzingen station
Technical equipment to facilitate running in the opposite direction of normal travel
Conversion work at shunting station
Conversion work at main station

Assignment: Horb Station, interlocking 4 (type: E43)

Client: DB Netz AG Anlagenmanagement Württemberg/Südbaden

Planning period: April to October 2005

Services rendered:

Decommisioning of interlocking 4
Shifting of all control functions from interlocking 4 to interlocking 2
Relocation of signaller functions to interlocking 1 (signaller, passenger station)
Conversion of area controlled by former interlocking 4 to DrS2 technology. The large control distances involved meant that 2 switches, 3 main signals, 3 distant signals and 1 distant signal repeater were affected
Decommissioning of section blocks between interlocking 2 and 4
Establishing dependencies to replace decommissioned section block
Setting up of nine new axle-counting sections for sections not visible from interlocking 2
Adaptation to Sb59
Planning of power supply system for the new configuration
Detail engineering for parts I and II of project