That made me laugh. Fifty or a hundred years ago the trains would be zipping about with no problem.
This isn’t a software issue. The electronics in mobile equipment that is exposed to cold enviroments needs to be engineered to handle it. Truck engines, transmissions and heavy equipment engines and transmissions have their electronics heated and cooled to keep it running.
They just had poor designs and not enough thought went into the protection of the electronics.
Perhaps the English should try “fish and chips” on their railroads. Take the “fish” and use them to grease the rails. That should keep the snow off. Then grind up the chips and use them to melt the snow (again, grease).
Remember, the British invented the train. Now they have invented a way to keep them from running. I think they have just gone back 150+ years in technology.
Somebody tell them that is NOT how progress works. Socialism, maybe, but not western, free-entreprise progress.
They never had this problem In Frostbite Falls.
The Germans would have kept the trains running - on time! /sarc
I think this paragraph sums it up best - in a dryly witty Brit fashion:
“As safety measures go, the systems are pretty unimpeachable. It’s hard to imagine that any rolling stock could be safer than that which remains completely motionless. Passengers, though, might be willing to forfeit a little of this security in order to undertake – entirely at their own risk, of course – the adventure of being carried from one spot to another. We hope the rail operators will seek, with some urgency, software that can handle a hard frost.”
‘=)
A lot of posters are assuming these trains are British-built. Very few are these days. In fact most modern commuter trains in Britain are built in Germany, Italy or France.