Agree that the substations should continue autonomously providing power. But it is always possible that someone (H&SE?) ruled that
with loss of control the pant should shut down? Sounds like the sort of thing they would do.
Regards
Dudley Horscroft
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Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Gold Coast trams at standstill with long delays after system failure | Gold Coast Bulletin
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> On 16/03/17 12:52, 'Dudley Horscroft'transitconsult@...
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>> Richard, I don't know but I suggest that the communication failure was control of all the sub-stations. ISTR that all the
>> substations are controlled from the depot, and if there were a computer outage there, this could result in all the substations
>> automatically shutting down. Hence no power, no movement.
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> If that's the case, that's poor system design. The substation should
> just continue to perform it's task autonomously until a fault causes it
> to trip. The substation should not shut down because it's lost it's
> SCADA link.
> And this wouldn't be a design oversight, some one would have had to
> specifically put a loss of 'heart-beat' shut down function into the subs.
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