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Originally Posted by Catfish

It will be like with the US railroads. It is all done by computers, only if an accident happens it is a human's fault. And never the programmer's, of course.

Nuthin good goes outta style BBY! The leading cause in the old days was varying pocket watches (Waltham, Hamilton, Elgin etc-I collect them) between the engineer, fireman, and conductor...ie when to pull onto a siding to avoid:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_time I wasn't computers then, but just having a reliable watch and a uniform time-zone saved lives KISS:

August 1853. Two trains heading towards each other on the same track collided as the train guards had different times set on their watches, resulting in the death of 14 passengers. Railway schedules were co-ordinated in New England shortly after this incident Numerous other collisions led to the setting up of the General Time Convention, a committee of railway companies to agree on scheduling.