German Railway Signalling - Kombinationsignale

Kombinationsignale

After the reunification 1990 a new signalling system was designed to have a common system in East and West. While West Germany uses signals which simply show the night aspects of the semaphores, East Germany designed new light signals similar to those in other Eastern European countries. Since 2000, new signals have mostly been of the Ks system. There are exceptions; for example, H/V signals were installed on the light rail extension in Kassel post-2000 because it the authorities wanted to avoid the risk of driver confusion on busy lines. The new Ks signals have three lights green, yellow and red, and have only three aspects. There are no new aspects, all combinations of lights can also be shown with H/V signals and vice versa. The PZB and LZB technologies are used the same way as for H/V signals.