One good thing about the update of the IPL update is that ETCS 2 is still a priority.
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Interesting tidbit in the 2032 Olympics Review:
My understanding was that the initial ETCS 2 rollout was only planned from Northgate down to Salisbury via the CRR tunnels at least initially.
Is this the first official ‘announcement’ of an extension further North and South?
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According to the announcement it seems to be the case! Looks like that whole sector which would be the case post CRR will be ETCS 2.
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The installation was also going to be done south of Beenleigh I think.
Doing it holus bolus will hopefully make things less complicated and more reliable, since there would be no need for a transition from old to new safeworking systems for most services in the ordinary course.
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Apparently when we had that initial ETCS meeting with Translink they said that ETCS was definitely part of the quad works by not further than Beenleigh. The second meeting we had they said eventually it will be network wide.
My thinking is that they will switch to DOO operations on the Sunny Coast, Gold Coast and Redcliffe lines once the new signalling system is switched on.
I think platform raising will be required at Glasshouse Mountains and definitely Beerwah, (perhaps include those platform raising works in the Beerburrum-Beerwah duplication) at the minimum before considering DOO on the DSCRL.
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Beerwah is being rebuilt as part of DSCL so not an issue there, Glasshouse will definitely be an issue though.
I live near the rail corridor and we were informed today that they are going to do be doing work to ‘test and commission changes to the signalling system’ this weekend as part of Beerburrum to Nambour duplication works.
Doubt it’s ETCS related, however it does make me wonder if the infrastructure to support ETCS 2 will now be installed as part of the track duplication. I will be keeping a keen eye out!
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^^ETCS 2 Testing
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