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The world's most useful model railway

2021-09-27

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In Darmstadt, Germany, there's the Eisenbahnbetriebsfeld: a model railway connected to actual railway signalling equipment, so that controllers can learn without putting any real trains in danger. I got to learn the very basics. β–  More about the railway (in German): https://www.eisenbahnbetriebsfeld.de/

Camera: Moritz Janisch

Producer: Marcel Fenchel https://www.fenchel-janisch.de

Editor: Isla McTear

With thanks to Deutsche Bahn and DB Training, AKA Bahn, the Institut fΓΌr Bahnsysteme und Bahntechnik at TU Darmstadt, and all the team at the Eisenbahnbetriebsfeld!

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