Kazakhstan Temir Zholy has approved the CTRL@LOCK 400 computer-based interlocking solution for train operation control on mainline and stations of Kazakhstan railway network.

This is one of the important tasks faced by LocoTech-Signal on the way of implementing the modern CTRL@LOCK 400 computer-based interlocking system in the “area 1520” under the Memorandum for Cooperation on the modernization of railway station interlocking systems in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The CTRL@LOCK 400 is based on the HMR-9 platform developed by ECM (Italy). The system has already demonstrated high flexibility and scalability in implemented projects and helped create territorially distributed decentralized and multistation complexes for train movement control. The modular system positively affects fault tolerance and reduces train downtime and delays in the case of possible failures. HMR-9’s adaptation to the “area 1520” includes the integration of the CTRL@SCREEN automated workplace subsystem. It allows taking into account the rules of how personnel interacts with the system on the 1520 mm gauge railways and the graphic symbols used in the station’s mimic diagram.

A computer-based interlocking system CTRL@LOCK 400 will be adapted and installed at the Mailytogay rail junction of the Kyzylorda signaling section and then tested together with the Kazakhstan Temir Zholy operating staff. After performance tests and approval of the system for the mainline network of Kazakhstan Temir Zholy, the CTRL@LOCK 400 system will meet all the necessary requirements for replication. This will make it possible to cut operating costs and upgrade obsolete electric interlocking systems on the railway network using new in-house resources.

Source: locotech-signal