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A Rail Operating Centre (ROC) is a building that will house all signallers, signalling equipment, ancillaries and operators for a specific region or route on the United Kingdom's main rail network. The ROC supplants the work of several other signal boxes which will then become redundant. Network Rail announced the creation of 14 ROCs situated throughout Great Britain that will eventually control all railway signalling over the British Railways network. This has been revised to 12 ROCs with responsibilities at two (Saltley and Ashford) being transferred to other ROCs (Rugby and Gillingham respectively). Nationally this will man the removal of 800 mechanical lever signal boxes and around 200 Panel and IECC boxes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.railengineer.uk/2011/09/06/wholesale-closure-of-almost-every-signal-box-on-the-network/ )〕 Some are listed buildings and will be left in situ. The ROCs are being built under private contracts for Network Rail and as such will only apply to the rail routes controlled by Network Rail. Railways in Northern Ireland, various heritage railways and other tramways are not subject to control by an ROC. Ashford IECC will still control the UK stretch of the Eurotunnel Rail Link (HS1/CTRL).〔 The ROCs will function as signalling and control centres with signalling staff, Train Operating Company (TOC) staff and Network Rail controllers all working under one roof. This will enable quick solutions to signalling problems and less delays to trains and passengers. Network Rail envisage the 12 ROCs to be controlling the entire network by 2058. == Signalling History == (詳細はDoncaster, Rugby and Carlisle.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wbsframe.mste.co.uk/public/Euston.html )〕 The PSBs would remove the necessity for lots of individual boxes along a particular route and would pass control to one centralized location. Carlisle's PSB took over the responsibility of 44 signal boxes alone in the north west area. A step on from the PSBs was the IECC, Integrated Electronic Control Centre, a forerunner of the ROCs. The first IECC panel was installed at London Liverpool Street in 1989. When the railways in Britain were privatized in 1994,〔〔This date refers to the privatization of the infrastructure under Railtrack. The Train operating Companies would not see final privatization until 1997.〕 staff from the then operating company, Railtrack, paid a visit to the Union Pacific Operating Centre, USA in 1999. After viewing the facilities and seeing the control they decided that a handful of major operating centres was the way forward for UK operations. Just one centre was approved and built in 2003 at Saltley, near to Birmingham, as part of the West Coast Route Modernisation. However this building was not connected for some time and whilst it was used by Network Rail Staff, no signalling equipment was installed until 2006. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rail Operating Centre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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