Hong Kong MTR bosses could punish supplier of signalling system blamed for train crash near Central station

Hong Kong rail bosses could punish the French supplier of the new signal system on the city’s subway network, after it was blamed for a train crash.

Tsuen Wan line services between Central and Admiralty, two stations at the heart of the city’s business district, remained suspended. The MTR Corporation said a software problem in the new system could have been to blame. While the new system was still being tested in Hong Kong, it was already up and running on Singapore’s MRT.The accident was also said to have been caused by a problem in the software’s design. Singapore’s Land Transport Authority said the system had disabled a safety feature which maintained a safe distance between trains.

‘No rush to roll out crash-linked signal system on MTR,’ city chief saysWhile Lee did not go into specifics, one notable difference was that the MRT had both the old and new signalling systems running in parallel, controlling different sections of the railway, at the time of the accident. That was despite the MTR Corp saying on Monday Thales’ own Toronto lab had identified the same software issue in a computer simulation after the crash.

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