1. Samuel Bemment Roger Dixon, Roger Goodall Loughborough University
Redundantly Engineered Points for enhanced reliability and capacity of Railway Track Switching
Samuel Bemment
Roger Dixon, Roger Goodall
Loughborough University
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2. Introduction… Points (Switches, Turnouts…)
Enable many routes through a network
Represent a single point of failure
Capacity limitation of any idealised network
‘Dangerous until proven safe’
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Whoopsy-daisy
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4. Why Re-engineer? The size of the prize…
0.3% Cost saving
0.2% Asset Reliability increase
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I’m joking, its actually…
£Billions
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No, really…

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New design Paradigm…
Always in a…
Safe
Available
Safe (did we say that one already?)
State
+ Capacity
+ Service Quality
-- Cost
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The future
Promising initial results
New design concepts established
Applying for patents
But at some point…
Build a set!
And then…
Hammer to Oblivion!
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