Hitachi ETCS Level 2 tested in Wales
HITACHI Rail Europe's "Verification-Train 3" has successfully completed a series of tests on a Network Rail class 97/3 locomotive equipped with ETCS Level 2 onboard equipment.
A CONSORTIUM of Italian construction companies Condotte d'Acqua and Rizzani de Eccher has awarded Ansaldo STS a €40m contract to design, supply, install and commission ERTMS on the new 130km line from Oued Tlelat to...
TTRANS Sistemas de Transportes, a member of the VLT RMBS consortium building the 15km light rail line in the Brazilian city of Santos, has selected Thales to supply signalling and communications systems for the project.
The...
HITACHI Rail Europe's "Verification-Train 3" has successfully completed a series of tests on a Network Rail class 97/3 locomotive equipped with ETCS Level 2 onboard equipment.Following Britain's first ERTMS rollout on the Cambrian Line in...
HUNGARY's National Infrastructure Development Agency (NIF) has issued a tender notice for a contract to equip the Budapest – Lökösháza section of European Corridor IV with ETCS Level 2.
The €52m project is divided into three...
Lille, which pioneered the VAL automatic light metro system, is at the forefront of technology once more as it is the first metro to install Alstom's new simplified CBTC system. Urbalis Fluence reduces the amount...
PASSENGER Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) has awarded a consortium of Thales and local partner Maziya the Rand 1.86bn ($US 186m) Western Cape New Signalling contract, which is a key part of Prasa's National...
THALES Spain has signed a Euros 109m turnkey contract to modernise and renew signalling systems on the Cairo-Alexandria line, in a project which will double capacity and raise the maximum line speed from 140km/h to...
IRJ at UITP 60th World Congress Geneva: Alstom has unveiled its new simplified CBTC called Urbalis Fluence which is designed to reduce the amount of lineside equipment by 20% by transferring the interlocking functions to...
SWEDEN's Lussavaara-Kirunava AB (LKAB) inaugurated the latest phase of its iron-ore mining operation in Kiruna, northern Sweden today, which includes a 12km, standard-gauge underground automatic railway.The new mining operation is situated 1365m below the original...
DESPITE speculation that Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) might not proceed with its implementation of an Advanced Train Management System (ATMS) on the interstate network, a further $A 50m ($US 49m) was allocated in last...
