Porterbrook Leasing Company Ltd has awarded a major contract to Rail & Road Protec GmbH (R2P) to provide on-train CCTV systems for 184 Electrostar vehicles.
R2P will be supplying and installing the new saloon, forward facing and pantograph cameras, including the Live View facility for Train Operating Company to view the live footage from their trains while in service.
Porterbrook is one of three major rolling stock leasing companies in the UK specialising in the leasing of railway rolling stock to Train Operating companies (TOCs).
Balvinder Chana, R2P director UK, said: “We are pleased that Porterbrook has decided to install our latest technology products on their Electrostar units.
“These units will be fitted with the new saloon, forward facing and pantograph cameras. Over a 3G real-time connection, the TOC staff will be able to view the live and recorded footage remotely from the train. This is the result of a close working partnership between R2P, Porterbrook and the TOC.
“We are pleased to receive this order. It will provide passengers travelling on these trains a safe and secure travelling environment.”
Commenting on the contract award, Ulrik Rasmussen, managing director of R2P, said: “This is a further important milestone for R2P in the UK rail market to strengthen our position as the strongest supplier of hybrid CCTV solutions in the rail market.
“R2P is highly committed to the UK rail market and we have already secured a significant number of contracts from UK rail companies.”
Lee Doggett, commercial manager, London and South East for Porterbrook Leasing Company, said: “We are pleased to have selected R2P as the CCTV supplier for these trains. The quality and fully functioning on-train systems are important to our customers and R2P will provide us and our customers with the best support available in this key area.”
Unfortunately this article does not tell us which fleet of Electrostar trains this applies to.