Signalling and Telecoms

Spain's transport ministry and the country's infrastructure manager, ADIF, have awarded several contracts worth almost €240 million to accelerate work on a new high-speed railway between Antequera and Granada. Siemens Rail Automation and Thales have won the largest of the three...

Network Rail has awarded a landmark contract for the installation of traffic management technology at two of the UK's new Regional Operating Centres (ROCs) to Thales. The £28.8 million contract covers the provision of Thales' ARAMIS Traffic Management System at sites...

Kapsch CarrierCom has been awarded two more GSM-R projects in the Czech Republic covering around 300 kilometres of the country's rail network. The existing rail network will be extended and upgraded on the Kolín – Havlíčkův Brod – Křižanov – Brno main line and regional...

International engineering group Thales is to design and install the telecommunications systems for São Paulo Line 17 monorail. Alongside Brazilian partner T’Trans, the company will develop the CCTV, passenger information systems and transmission and telephony subsystems for one of the two monorail lines...

Communications Based Train Control (CBTC) means different things to different people, so says Tom Lee from the Rail Standards and Safety Board who chaired a recent conference in London on the subject organised by Sagacity Media. The engineering / technical aspects are often not seen in the context of operations or passenger service and, whilst CBTC […]

Spain's infrastructure manager, ADIF, has awarded a €44 million contract to upgrade the signalling along a stretch of the country's Mediterranean Corridor to a Bombardier/Thales consortium. The contract, which is the second to be let by ADIF for the modernisation of...

Slovakia's state-owned rail operator Železnice Slovenskej Republiky (ŽSR) has awarded a €20 million for the rollout of ERTMS on a 250-kilometre route between Bratislava and the Czech border. Kapsch CarrierCom and AŽD Praha have been awarded contracts to install the GSM-R system and ETCS Level 2 signalling...

Thales has been invited to tender for London Underground's Sub-Surface railway signalling contract. The contract, which will see capacity increased markedly on the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines, the District line and Metropolitan line, had previously been let to...

A consortium comprising Alstom, Bombardier and Indra have been awarded a €410 million contract to overlay 310 kilometres of high-speed railway in Spain with ERTMS Level 2 signalling. The contract covers a stretch of a new north-west route between Valladolid and...

European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) will be installed on Holland's busiest routes by 2028 following a ruling by the Dutch government. ERMTS Level 2 will be rolled out across the Randstad region and on routes connecting the cities of Arnhem,...