Sam Bement
Chief Innovation Officer and co-founder of Universal Signalling; railway systems engineer with 18+ years' experience and PhD in Railway Systems Engineering.
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Jul 5, 2026
Sam BementGUEST
So the uCross product you've mentioned is all around giving signalers better information about where trains are with regards to user work crossings.
Sam BementGUEST
So in the UK, we've got about 2000 user work crossings, and that's a crossing where there's gates that the user themselves must work, must operate across.
Sam BementGUEST
And in order to get permission for those gates to open, the crossing user must ring the signaler and say, hello, I'd like to use this crossing.
Sam BementGUEST
The problem we have is that a lot of these rural lines have very long block sections with no train detection.
Sam BementGUEST
So the signal actually has no idea where the train is and they must make the user wait if there's a train in that section.