Enabling work at weekends in early January and mid-February will mean diverted services on the East Coast Main Line. The work will hasten the introduction of digital signalling ETCS to the route famous for the...Read more
A little over one year ago, Siemens Mobility wrapped up the acquisition of Dutch company Sqills, a provider of SaaS inventory, reservation and ticketing software solutions. Company CEO and co-founder Bart van Munster looks back...Read more
AnalysisCross-border rail traffic is a recurring topic and receives a lot of attention. Or not enough, as the case may be. Good intentions to simplify things often come up against very heavy legal regulations for...Read more
In what may be an immediate retort to recent criticism from the regulators in the UK, Network Rail has emphasised its hi-tech approach to running the railway more efficiently across Great Britain. The infrastructure management...Read more
Partner article“Just alarming is not enough, with fleet condition monitoring we want to keep the fleet in such a condition so that incidents do not happen”, says Markus Urban, Product Manager at voestalpine Signaling. Along with...Read more
Partner webinarIn a joint RailTech webinar with voestalpine Signaling, Richard Lenthall, Vice President Customer Management and Markus Urban, Product Manager at voestalpine, will talk about the possibilities of a Central Management Software (CMS) for combining monitoring...Read more
Supplier Alstom has won a contract for to equip 120 SNCB locomotives with train control system ETCS level 2. The project to install the system launches in October 2022 and will run for three years.Read more
The successful test runs of Digital Automatic Coupling (DAC) trains around Europe bring some rapid developments in Germany. Deutsche Bahn is eager to set up 150 pop-up workshops for the DAC retrofitting of wagons. First,...Read more
Banedanmark has put a new signalling system into use on the three remaining section of the S-Bahn lightrail system in de Danish capital of Copenhagen, the infrastructure manager said on Monday.Read more
Recent trips across Europe demonstrate a significant lack of up-to-date information in the event of traffic disruptions. Part of the reason is that railroads are somewhat sluggish companies that operate through compartmentalised departments, even when...Read more
Network Rail has successfully completed European Train Control System testing on the power cars of its New Measurement Train. The yellow-liveried engineering inspection train, adapted from a redundant formation of the diesel-powered ‘High Speed Train’,...Read more
Since this week, passengers on metro line 4 in Paris can board fully automated metros. Equipped by Siemens Mobility, four automated vehicles with CBTC signaling at GoA 4 have entered service, and more will be...Read more
The very first call for proposals for rail research and innovation activities by Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking will see six project receive a total of 568,4 million euros in funding. The projects will involve more...Read more
DB Fernverkehr has started working with IVU Traffic Technologies’ IVU.Rail system for its vehicle dispatch and train control system. The move comes as part of an ongoing digitalisation effort.Read more
Partner contentvoestalpine Signaling is gearing up for the market launch of its MDS Visual Train Analysis (VTA) system. On Wednesday, the company will host a live webinar with RailTech.com about the VTA system. Join us and...Read more
