Signalling and Telecoms

The UK government is to fund the overlay of ETCS signalling at Ashford International with £2 million from the Local Growth Fund initiative. The installation of a modern signalling system at the station is required if Eurostar's new fleet of e320...

An Alstom/Thales joint venture has won a €330 million contract to resignal seven metro lines on Hong Kong's urban rail network. The project includes the installation, and an option for the maintenance, of Communications Based Train Control (CBTC) signalling technology on...

British engineering consultancy Mott MacDonald is to examine Infrabel's plans to roll out ETCS across Belgium's entire rail network by 2022. The Belgian Mobility and Transport Federal Public Services (FPS) body has awarded contracts to a team of consultants to...

Finland's Ministry of Transport and Communications is to decommission its GSM-R network and switch to VIRVE - the national telecommunications network used by the police and military. The decision to adopt VIRVE has been made because of problems with GSM-R phones...

Alstom is to supply new signalling equipment to Egyptian National Railways (ENR) as part of a programme financed by the World Bank. The contract, which includes maintenance for the subsequent five years, will involve the replacement of electro-mechanical interlockings with Alstom's 'Smartlock'...

Siemens and Thales are to work together to install the signalling and telecommunication systems along a 340-kilometre stretch of high-speed railway in Northern Spain. The €510 million contract includes the installation of ETCS Level 2 signalling, wheel detectors and axle...

Metro systems worldwide are in desperate need of extra capacity. Building new lines is the most obvious solution and in Singapore new routes are being constructed as you read this very article. But how do you squeeze additional capacity...

Infrabel has commissioned the longest section of conventional railway in Europe to be signalled by ETCS. The Belgian infrastructure manager has completed an overlay of the system on a 160-kilometre line linking Namur with Dinant, Bertrix and Athus, on the...

Siemens has been awarded the contract to supply the driverless train control system for an extension of line 14 on the Paris Métro. Having supplied the CBTC system for the original line 14 route, Siemens has now been handed a €45...

When Network Rail took over the national rail infrastructure in 2002, it inherited roughly 800 operational signal boxes deploying a wide range of technologies including lever frames, ‘entrance-exit’ (NX) panels ...
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