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Signalling is always fail-safe - as far as I can tell this is the case even when there are e.g. multiple redundant ways of detecting train presence, a failure of any one is treated as a reason to stop trains. Something like a cheap LED that burns out more frequently is not unsafe, it just means there would be more cases of trains having to stop because the signal light was out.


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