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Infrastructure 04

The grey slope at the front of the magnet is there to protect it from anything hanging from the train and is why these installations are referred to as "AWS ramps".

 

This is the typical arrangement used on uni-directional lines, but there are other AWS arrangements for bi-directional lines as well as fixed magnets to alert drivers to lineside warning signs, for example.

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Uploaded on March 23, 2020