Talk:Punktförmige Zugbeeinflussung

Fantastic

I would like to see this system introduced into Australia, it's so fantastic. It sould be givin a trial on Adelaide's "S-Bahn." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.26.37.35 (talk • contribs) 20:41, October 12, 2005.

PZB on virtually all lines?

Quote: Usage by country -- Germany -- German safety regulations (the EBO, the German federal rail safety regulator) requires PZB on all but very minor lines. All traction vehicles must be equipped with Indusi in Germany.

AFAIK this is untrue. It was reported recently that this system is only required on trains going faster than 100 km/h. Someone with expertise should please verify this. Maikel (talk) 13:21, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Judging from the situation in Switzerland, I think the statement is a bit over-simplified. You probably won't find any mainline rolling stock that doesn't do at least 120 km/h, and I would be very surprised if there were any that doesn't have PZB. However, for shunters, track maintenance vehicles and the like regulations are most likely different. In terms of line-side equipment, the situation is also different. While certainly all mainlines are equipped with PZB or LZB, this is not the case for a number of branch lines, and (usually very bad) accidents happen every few years because of ignored red lights. --Kabelleger (talk) 20:08, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

The point is that recently ten people were killed and 23 injured in Germany in a train crash that could have been prevented by PZB. The following article reiterates my statement that PZB is not mandatory in Germany on tracks where trains go slower than 100 km/h, even if passengers are involved and there is only a single track (and hence a risk of head-on collision).

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/0,1518,742710,00.html

Maikel (talk) 11:49, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

The sentence is true. "Traction vehicle" is only one part of the system (and they all have them...including the steam locomotives of museums, when the used outside the museum areas). Signal equipment is the other (and that didn't exists at that accident {classical SPAD}) - [German locomotive crew guy] --79.199.27.158 (talk) 23:59, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Command Button

Hi, unless that name is also used in some official English-language rulebook, I would like to suggest that the term "Override Button" or "Override Order Button" is used instead. While "Befehl" is German for "command", it is also the word for an order given (think military orders), and the function of that button is that of an override, which the operator is only to push after having received an order to do so by the signalman. -- 109.193.81.164 (talk) 22:01, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

I took some photos of the O-Train Trillium Line driving cab. The labels used are, from left to right, "Instruction", "Clear Indusi" and "Alert". Not sure which lever is which function, though. --Kakurady (talk) 03:04, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Sounds like the same order as on most vehicles. And now that I read them, I believe having read those terms before, though I've no idea where, as it'd normaly be in german when I read something about it :-) Are you planning to upload the photos to commons? If there are more similarities to the german cab I'd expect it to be the same. --nenntmichruhigip (Diskussion) 16:05, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

I was thinking about that. The photo quality isn't the best, though. --Kakurady (talk) 13:16, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Translations

I would rather use "Override", "Release" and "Acknowledge" for the switches instead of the literal translations. Please tell me what you think about this. --ManuelNeuerFan1 (talk) 20:24, 29 July 2021 (UTC)