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Updated 8 March 2010 |
Storno LegacyHere
you can see some interesting examples of Storno equipment in service.
Update: Over the past few years most of these systems have been decommissioned and replaced with more up to date technology. |
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London UndergroundThere
were a number of different systems providing communication between the
tube train drivers and the line controllers. Here you can see one of the
old equipment rooms. On the panel to the right of the base station you
can see the leaky feeder distribution equipment that provided signal to
and from the trains using radiating cable running along the tunnels.
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Here
you can see a trackside base station installation adjacent to a main railway
line. As part of the upgrading of the London Underground, these type of systems have now been replaced by the London Underground Connect project. This is a new digital system providing comprehensive service over the whole network. The new equipment uses the Motorola Dimetra system which conforms to the TETRA open standard for trunked digital radio systems. |
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London BusesIf
you visited London and traveled by bus, up until 2009 you still had
a good chance of seeing the CQM6000 in action. The StarNet MPT1327 Band
3 trunked radio system supported many sophisticated speech and data
features including automated logon of bus route and running numbers
and AVL (Automatic Vehicle Location) updated as the buses passed roadside
beacons along the route. This information also updated the countdown
passenger information displays at relevant bus stops.
Update: The StarNet infrastructure was decommissioned in 2009, replaced with the iBus system. |
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Met PoliceThe
Metropolitan Police Service has always been a Storno customer and the
main VHF scheme will continue to employ the CQM6000 as a vehicle set up
until migration to the O2 Airwave national public safety radio network Update: The VHF scheme and MetRadio UHF system have now been replaced by Airwave. |
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London AmbulanceThe
London Ambulance Service was one among many of the emergency services
users equipped by Storno in the UK and the synthesised CQM5000 with 1200
Baud FFSK selective calling and status signalling provided speech comms
back to control, working alongside the separate mobile data and vehicle
navigation displays. Update: London Ambulance Service has now migrated to the Airwave network. |
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Surrey Fire BrigadeMost
of the fire brigades in the UK used AM systems but there were a few exceptions
including Surrey which was a loyal Storno customer for many decades. The
photo shows the control room at Brigade Headquarters featuring the custom
control consoles. Update: UK fire brigades are migrating to Airwave as part of the Firelink project, the Storno system was decommisssioned in 2010. |
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Network RailAnother
long-standing Storno customer, Both British Rail and Scotrail operated
a number of wide area and local systems including the NRN Band 3 National
Radio Network, RETB Radio Electronic Token Block systems for single track
operation and the Channel Tunnel also has it's own trunked system. The
picture shows the installation of a CSR Cab Secure Radio, a full duplex
UHF Stornophone 6000 from one of the TTSBR Train to Signal Box Radio systems. Update: Many systems are still operational but due to be replaced by GSM-R in due course. |
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Storno in the newsThe
June 2005 edition of Land mobile magazine contained a detailed article
on the old London Buses system. |
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