Signalling and Telecoms

A five-year project to upgrade the signalling system at Gothenburg Central which will almost double the station's capacity has been completed. In partnership with infrastructure manager Trafikverket, Bombardier has upgraded the legacy interlocking system at the station - the world's...

DB Netz has licensed SBB's own traffic management system for use on the German national rail network. From 2019, DB Netz will use SBB's in-house Rail Control System (RCS) to manage its 33,000-kilometre network. RCS, which is also used by the Belgian infrastructure...

Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) has completed the switchover to ETCS Level 2 on the first section of the new north-south Gotthard Base Tunnel route. The in-cab signalling system was commissioned on August 16 on the northern portal's 19-kilometre feeder line between Brunnen...

Myanmar Railways has awarded a contract to Marubeni Corporation for the installation of a new operational control center. The project, which is funded by a grant from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), includes the installation of safety equipment from Kyosan Electric...

US authority the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has admitted that most of the country's rail routes will miss the December deadline for positive train control (PTC). In a report to Congress, US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said: "We will continue to...

Belgian infrastructure manager Infrabel has awarded a Siemens/Cofely-Fabricom consortium the contract to upgrade more than 2,200 kilometres of track to ETCS Level 2 signalling. The €510 million contract is part of a wider initiative to install a common signalling system...

Transport for London (TfL) will be hoping it's third time lucky after finally awarding Thales the troubled Sub-Surface Railway resignalling contract. TfL confirmed today (August 2) that it has agreed a £760 million deal with Thales - more than double...

Hitachi Rail Europe has been awarded a £24 million contract to supply the traffic management system (TMS) for Thameslink's core network. The project, which includes options for the South East and London North Eastern programme, will allow GTR to operate...

The high-speed arm of Spain's infrastructure manager, Adif Alta Velocidad, has received a €180 million loan to upgrade signalling and safety systems on lines around the country. The loan will support the introduction of ERTMS on several routes and improve...

The major routes of the old London Brighton & South Coast Railway have been resignalled many times since the company went out of existence in 1923. However the secondary routes, although mainly electrified many years ago, retained their traditional signalling right up to the present day with lever frame boxes...