Signalling and Telecoms

Eurotunnel has commissioned its track-to-train GSM-R network to replace the Channel Tunnel's obsolete comms network. The €48 million project has taken six years to complete. GSM-R, a sub-system of ERTMS, is vital for the Channel Tunnel to fall in line with...

Located within the station throat at Liverpool Lime Street station, and standing in a deep cutting, is Liverpool Lime Street signal box. It was built to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Type 13 design and commissioned on 25 January 1948. The interlocking is a 95-lever Westinghouse Brake and Signal Style ‘L’ frame and is believed […]

Thalys has become the first European train operator to sign up to an ambitious carbon reduction initiative and has committed to reducing its own emissions by 40 per cent. The Science-Based Targets Program is a joint initiative between WWF, the...

Saudi Railway Company (SAR) has placed an order for 1,200 rail tank cars from US supplier Greenbrier. The cars will be used to transport molten sulfur and phosphoric acid from mining operations in the Sirhan-Turaif region of northern Saudi Arabia. Greenbrier will manufacture...

Network Rail has completed a £44 million upgrade to Manchester Victoria station. As well as refurbishing the existing station building, the project has included the addition of a new ETFE roof. In 2009, a Department for Transport report named Manchester Victoria...

Metrolinx has appointed Alstom to supply its computer-based train control system for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area. The $113 million contract, which will be delivered by the end of 2018, will integrate the entire 450-kilometre network into a single control centre. The...

Parsons has been appointed by Chicago's commuter rail operator to install its positive train control (PTC) system on Metra trains. Parsons role will include supplying and fitting a train management system that is interoperable with 12 other rail systems. Chicago has...

Alstom used the 1520 International Railway Exhibition to announce the creation of a new Russian S&T research centre. Alstom, TMH, Research and the Design Institute for Information Technology, the Automation and Communication in Railway Transport (NIIAS) and Skolkovo Foundation agreed to set...

Hitachi has formally launched a new subsidiary, Hitachi Information Control Systems Europe, to lead its traffic management business. Based in Bradford on Avon, the new organisation combines TRE, which was acquired by Hitachi in 2012, and Hitachi's advanced traffic management and information...

The many articles on ERTMS (European Rail Traffic Management System), in both this magazine and other publications covering the rail industry, have generally reported that the system with its component parts of ETCS (European Train Control system), GSM-R and the ETML (the still to come traffic management level) will yield...