High Speed Rail
ADIF awards Antequera-Granada HSL contracts
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...
Rail Business
Network Rail names winner of first traffic management contract
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...
Rail News
Kapsch to equip Czech lines with GSM-R
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...
Signalling and Telecoms
Thales picked for São Paulo monorail contract
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...
Events
Communications Based Train Control
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 […]
Signalling and Telecoms
ADIF progressing with Mediterranean Corridor S&T upgrade
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...
Rail News
Slovakia pushes ahead with ERTMS overlay
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...
Rail Business
Thales pre-qualifies for SSL signalling contract
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...
Rail News
Consortium awarded Spanish ERTMS contract
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...
Rail News
Dutch government plans full ERTMS rollout by 2030
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,...
Latest News
GWR and Network Rail Director Ruth Busby receives OBE
Inspirational Great Western Railway (GWR) and Network Rail director Ruth Busby was at Buckingham Palace on Friday to receive...