Op 30 dec. 2021 om 22:49 heeft Michael Kümmling <michael@kuemmling.eu> het volgende geschreven:
Am 30.12.21 um 11:08 schrieb Rolf Eike Beer:From what I can see these signs are basically identical in meaning, and thereexists no tagging for the new version of the sign.Correct. The meaning of these signs is identical.
The new variant is the European standardized one (EN 16494).
While the usage is similar, there is an actual difference. A colleague from the signalling department pointed me to Technical Document 011REC1053 from the European Railway Agency, which contains an annex that conveniently points it out:
From these figures (and section 5.1 of the main document) it can be derived that the difference between stop markers (Haltsignale) and location markers (Standortsignale) can be used to indicate the function of an End Of movement Authority (EOA), comparable with:
railway:signal:*:function=*
Stop markers are used for entry signals and exit signals, whilst location markers can be used for intermediate signals and block signals.
Not all operators (countries) make use of the distinction between location markers and stop markers though. At least The Netherlands, Belgium, France, the United Kingdom and Spain just use stop markers for all EOAs. It appears DB Netz and SBB insisted on distinguishing EOA functions and thus began implementing location markers.
We could tag German location markers as:
railway:signal:train_protection=DE……
railway:signal:train_protection:type=block_marker
railway:signal:train_protection:function=block/intermediate