Train Speed Optimization in Practice
The expensive and complicated installations usually only make sense for heavily used routes.
Swiss Federal Railways:
- Lenzburg-Killwangen (since 2000)
- Zurich-Altstetten
- Around Olten (installed 2004, current status unknown)
- Probably other places (Zürich S-Bahn?)
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