SPANISH signalling supplier Enyse has awarded Mermec, Italy, a contract to supply ETCS Level 1 wayside equipment as part of a project to upgrade and electrify the Thénia – Oued Aissi line east of Algiers.
DANISH infrastructure manager Banedanmark has selected Alstom to deliver its Atlas ERTMS onboard signalling solution to train operators across the Danish network.
TWO ETCS balises were ceremonially installed at Airolo on the Gotthard line on Friday 13, marking the start of a five-and-a-half year programme to install balises at 11,000 locations covering the entire Swiss mainline network.
Norway's government will announce a revised 10-year transport plan and details of several new infrastructure projects in 2013. Kevin Smith spoke with Harald Nikolaisen, Jernbaneverket's director of construction and investments, about what the infrastructure manager has suggested these plans include.
THE outgoing Dutch minister of infrastructure and environment, Mrs Melanie Schulz van Haegen-Maas Geesteranus, has told the Dutch Parliament that ERTMS will be rolled out over the country's entire national railway network.
BRITAIN's infrastructure manager, Network Rail (NR), has agreed framework deals with Ansaldo STS, Infrasig, Invensys Rail, and Signalling Solutions to develop and design ETCS Level 2 signalling and train control for use in Britain.
Despite the fact that Europe is no closer to having an interoperable railway through the creation of a standard signalling system, a strategy is now emerging for the rollout of ETCS in many countries, as David Briginshaw explains.
THE 2012 European Railway Award has been made to Mr Karel Vinck, Europe's ERTMS coordinator, and to Mr François Lacôte, currently senior vice-president and technical advisor with Alstom, for their respective outstanding political and technical achievements in rail transport.