Signalling and Telecoms

Alcatel-Lucent is to deliver the fibre-optic network which will form the communications backbone of Brussels' new automated metro system. Transport authority STIB is in the process of fully-automating the Belgian capital's subway network, which will increase the system's capacity from...

Siemens has been awarded a €180 million contract to supply signalling and train protection systems to South Africa's densely-populated Gauteng province. The contract, which was awarded by the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA), will include the installation of modern...

Signalling technology and system engineering has moved on considerably over the past twenty odd years. However, it is still perceived by many as expensive and failing to keep up with technology advances that have emerged in other industries. Network Rail is mindful of this criticism and has created a Signalling Innovations Group to investigate how [...]

Signalling Solutions (SSL) is ramping up its recruitment effort in order to deliver major signalling renewal works in the South West. Earlier in the year, the Alstom/Balfour Beatty joint venture was awarded three contracts worth around £140 million to carry...

New York transit authority MTA has handed Bombardier and Siemens a major contact to bring Positive Train Control (PTC) to the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and Metro-North Railroad. The package of works, which could be worth $428 million to...

Much has been written on the deployment of the European Railway Traffic Management System (ERTMS) Level 2 across Europe. Most of the more recent High Speed lines are equipped with the system (or more accurately the ETCS – European Train Control System plus GSM-R) where infrastructure and trains are more or less self contained and [...]

Bombardier's INTERFLO 250 ERTMS signalling solution is to be installed on a metro line between the centre of Santiago and Rancagua. The introduction of the €15 million in-cab signalling system system will allow the state operator Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del...

Siemens is to build 74 Inspiro trains for Riyadh's new metro system - the biggest project of its kind in the world. As well as supplying rolling stock, Siemens will deliver the electrification and signalling system as part of the...

Siemens has been awarded a €178 million turnkey contract to deliver a second automated metro line for the French city of Rennes. The project will see Siemens France supply 19 two-car rubber-tyred Citval trains, as well as install all of...

Signalling Solutions Limited (SSL), the Alstom/Balfour Beatty Rail joint venture company, has been awarded three contracts by Network Rail totalling around £140m to renew the signalling system controlling major areas of the Great Western Main Line. SSL will deliver the...