Digital automatic coupling

Digital automatic coupling has been developed in the 2020s to replace the English Buffers and chain coupling.

It looks a bit like the Scharfenberg coupler with extra contacts to join electrical circuits and air hoses.

Advantages
  • Longer trains up to 750m.
  • Brakes remotely controlled like ECPB

Makers

Videos

See also

References
  1. Dellner
  2. Demonstration of DAC
  3. Shift2Rail
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