Signalling and Telecoms

Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) has awarded Prysmian Group a €26 million framework contract for the renewal of signalling cables across the network. Throughout the life of the five-year contract around 2,800 kilometres of cabling will be upgraded on a call-off...

Belgian rail operator SNCB is to equip 449 trains with ERTMS Level 2 signalling. Alstom has been awarded a €70 million contract to supply and maintain its Atlas 200 solution across the five different train types which make up the...

Here in the Rail Engineer, there are often articles on successful signalling and resignalling programmes. The reports are full of descriptions of sophisticated electronic kit, LED signal heads and lineside ...
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All too often, the UK rail scene is compared unfavourably with countries in continental Europe. But is this fair? Or even true?

The Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE) holds ...
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MP Hugh Bayley attended the opening of Network Rail's new Rail Operating Centre (ROC) in York. The facility is the largest of 12 operating centres which over the next 15 to 20 years will completely replace the UK's 800 signal boxes. In January 2015,...

Although Ethernet has been used for a number of years in Local Area Networks (LAN) for Information Technology (IT), it is now being used within railway telecoms applications such as customer information systems and Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and, more recently, within signalling control systems. Writes Paul Darlington One recent example is the newly […]

The exciting plans for signalling the Thameslink railway, including the introduction of the European Train Control System (ETCS) and Automatic Train Operation (ATO), were described in issue 109 (November 2013). Writes David Bickell However, introducing impressive new technology to run a 24 train-per-hour (tph) service through the Thameslink core could be frustrated by the very […]

Swiss rail operator SBB has renewed its mobile and fixed telecommunications contracts for the next five years. Swisscom will continue to provide fixed and mobile telecommunication services until 2019 - a contract valued at CHF 72.2 million. Sunrise has been awarded a...

The consortium building São Paulo's Line 6 metro has awarded Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Mitsui a contract to design and install the line's driverless operating system. MHI and Mitsui, in partnership with local contractors, will deliver the automation system on behalf...

Siemens Rail Automation has said it is having to expand its operation in the USA in order to deliver a major upgrade to train control systems on New York's Metro-North Railroad and Long Island Rail Road (LIRR). Two existing Siemens' sites...