Level Crossings And Signal Boxes
As I travel around Germany on trains, I am surprised at the number of level crossings and signal boxes.
Level Crossings
On the South Harz Line, there must have been half a dozen between Northeim and Nordhausen.
I don’t know if the Germans have a similar policy to Network Rail of aiming to remove all crossings, but if they do, they have a lot to do.
But the area did suffer the serious Langenweddingen Level Crossing Disaster in 1967.
Signal Boxes
Every station seemed to have a signal box.
Although, I did find this in the Wikipedia entry for the South Harz Railway.
Signalling on the South Harz line will in future use electronic interlockings that are remotely controlled from a centre in Göttingen.
So it does seem there is a certain amount of ongoing modernisation.
Conclusions
I’m very much of the opinion, that there is still a lot of technical modernisation to be done on German railways.
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