Signalling and Telecoms

Managing risk on a project isn’t just about being the safety police, says Sarah; it is much more important to support and encourage safe practice. On something like the Four Lines Modernisation (4LM) project, probably one of the largest and most complex resignalling programmes in the world, that philosophy is being put to the test. […]

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The Bombardier and New United Group (NUG) Signaling Solutions joint venture (BNS) in China has won its first contract, delivering an advanced rail control system for Changzhou Metro. The 50/50 BNS joint venture will install Bombardier's Cityflo train control system on...

Crossing the Alps in Central Europe has been a challenge for centuries and no more so than for the early railway pioneers. In 1882, after a 10 year construction, the first rail tunnel through the Saint Gotthard Massif opened, being 15km long and connecting Gőschenen with Airolo in Switzerland. It provided a route from Zurich […]

The last train of the new S Stock fleet has been delivered from Bombardier's site in Derby to London Underground's Ruislip depot. The new fleet is one of the components of a major upgrade of the sub-surface lines, known as the...

One of the new Intercity Express Programme (IEP) trains has started testing its digital signalling system on Network Rail’s infrastructure. Train 800 002, a five-car bi-modal (diesel and electric) IEP train destined for the Great Western Railway, has arrived at...

Skills forecasting is a tricky business. With advanced programmes like Digital Railway, it is not easy to know exactly how technology will evolve in the next five to 10 years and what kind of skills will be required. ‘When I first took over, we were doing it to bolster our workforce and now we’re seeing […]

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South Korea's rail infrastructure manager, Korea Rail Network Authority (KRNA), has appointed Nokia to establish an LTE-R communications network on its new high-speed railway between Wonju and Gangneung. Nokia, which has been at the forefront of developing LTE-R technology for the rail...

Banedanmark has issued a statement confirming that its implementation of ERTMS and CBTC signalling will be delayed because it 'has proved more complex than expected'. Denmark's rail infrastructure manager had envisaged a full rollout of ERTMS by the end of...

A new Alstom Coradia Polyvalent regional train has reached Romania as part of the Sighișoara-Simeria signalling rehabilitation project. The contract to carry out extensive modernisation and signalling works on the 170km stretch of railway between Sighișoara and Simeria via Coșlariu was...

Pulling cable through the interconnected tunnels of London Overground’s East London Line while most people are asleep is a world apart from the predictable hours of most office jobs. As one of Carillion’s signalling and telecoms apprentices, Ben Dawson, puts it, ‘There’s a bit of graft involved.’ The East London Line reopened in 2010 following […]