Big crowd at the signal box at Zittau Süd station
As part of the major "Historik Mobil" event on August 6 and 7, the university's training signal box at the Zittau Süd train station was once again a crowd-pleaser this year.
The Zittau Süd signal box is located on the Zittau–Oybin/Jonsdorf railway line, which is operated by the Saxon-Upper Lusatian Railway Company. It was renovated for use as a laboratory as part of the KIA (sandwich-style) degree course at our university. It has since become an integral part of the training program for our students at our partner company, DB Netz AG. Within the class / course“Railway-Specific Control and Safety Technology,” real-world operational processes during actual train trips can be combined here with instruction on the technological principles of controlling and securing railways. Even though the mechanical signal box systems represent a fairly old generation of signal boxes, the safety-related interdependencies found in modern signal boxes are still applied today according to the same fundamental principles.
For"Historik Mobil", trains were once again dispatched authentically at Zittau Süd station, as was still necessary for operations up to 30 years ago. The staff performed their duties in uniforms typical of the period. Although the signal box is only a small piece of the puzzle of the major "Historik Mobil" event, there was once again a lot of visitor traffic this year.
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