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ASDO is already implemented either by GPS, or at stations where different platforms have different lengths and also within the core, by use of balise. All that was required for BCZ was an update of the database. All other stations they stop at regularly (including up to Kings Lynn) are already...
The escalators were on at 3am a couple nights ago, they drop into a basically stopped state though before you get on. Worth noting that all the stations along this route are 24/7 and seem to have handled the issues above, although most others are smaller.
Yes ATO would disengage as soon as it was moved out of off. You’d then be in manual ETCS level 2. If you knocked it it would probably be in to the brake position, if you knock it into traction ATO cuts off and the driver must move back to off to then take traction again
Yes, training started in 2018, all new drivers must sign it. If a driver is trained on ETCS they have to use it over AWS/TPWS, but there is no requirement to use ATO if trained in ETCS, although most do. It’s probably about 50/50 AWS/TPWS and ETCS at the moment if I had to take a guess...
Well the drivers were told they could stop at the new station if they wanted to practice quite a few months ago, although not many if any at all did, for the reasons you said
For a while trains were routed using the “wrong line” but to get the equipment to remove the pantograph up the side of the train, a line block was needed on both lines as there is no space for such equipment on the cess.
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They can only take power from one at once, the train had enough...