IRJ at Nordic Rail: Testing is set to commence in November on Norwegian infrastructure manager Jernbaneverket's pilot ERTMS project.
BRITAIN's infrastructure manager, Network Rail, has awarded a £140m contract to Signalling Solutions Ltd, a joint venture of Alstom and Balfour Beatty Rail, to resignal part of the Great Western Main Line.
NORWEGIAN infrastructure manager Jernbaneverket says it is ready to launch pilot operation of ERTMS in the southeast of the country in the next stage of preparations for the national rollout of the system.
SPANISH development minister Mrs Ana Pastor has announced a range of measures aimed at improving safety across the whole rail network after the accident at Santiago de Compostela on July 26, which left 79 dead and dozens injured.
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.
During Global Transport Forum's signalling and train control conference in Vienna in March Mr Jos Holtzer, with Netherlands Railways passenger rolling stock and energy division, questioned whether GSM-R in its current guise is able to support ETCS reliably. David Briginshaw was there to hear Holtzer's radical comments and proposals.
POLAND's infrastructure manager PKP PLK has awarded a €35m contract to Bombardier to install ERTMS Level 2 on the 148km Legnica – Wroclaw – Opole line.
AFTER several months of uncertainty, an agreement has finally been reached between Austria's infrastructure manager and open-access operators over access to two new lines which can only be used by rolling stock equipped with ETCS Level 2.
THE NORWEGIAN ministry of transport and communications announced on November 28 that it has asked infrastructure manager Jernbaneverket to prepare a draft development strategy for the rollout of ERTMS across the national network.
Just over a year from now the first trains will start to carry passengers under the Bosphorus, linking the Asian and European sides of Istanbul by rail for the first time. It will also be the world's first rail link to combine CBTC and ERTMS on one line, reports David Briginshaw from Istanbul.