This state-of-the-art, completely automated system securely controls the entire Meran-Mals line, a 60km-long, single-track, non-electrified line with a 696-metre difference in level with a ruling gradient of 1 in 28; the maximum speed permitted is 120 km per hour and the minimum 70 km per hour.
This efficient, environmentally-friendly and secure system controls the stations along the line via the signalling system based on a multi-station ACC system with traffic control at Meran.
The system controls all the traffic on the line, integrating all the traditional CTC and CBI functions (SCC): individual station equipment, automatic block signal, level crossings and remote control. These stations – all unmanned – only have peripheral posts, which activate commands travelling along fibre optic cables from the central post. Secure logic and electro-optical conversion come under the remit of the central post.
The past and the present are combined in this wide-ranging project, which takes up the long history of this glorious railway and marries it with the most cutting-edge technology to provide secure traffic management.
