Increasing efficiency of Metro Bilbao’s fleet with monitoring systems
How does Metro Bilbao benefit from a fully integrated monitoring approach including sensors, software & analytics? Helmut Liebminger, CEO of voestalpine Signaling and Walter Serno, customer manager for Spain, talk about the modular product concept...Read more
Banedanmark rolls out new ERTMS signalling in Denmark
From 11 April 2023 onwards, trains on the line between Copenhagen and Ringsted via Køge Nord will run on a new ERTMS-based digital signalling system. The system being rolled out by Danish infrastructure manager Banedanmark...Read more
Seven thousand applications for 60-person tour of famous Birmingham signal box
It may be easier to win the National Lottery than to see inside an iconic example of 1960s brutalist railway architecture. Network Rail, the organisers of one-off public tours of the former Birmingham New Street...Read more
What cyber attack risks do the railways face?
AnalysisDDoS attacks have increased in the past year, mainly targeting railways, and ransomware is the most common type of cyber attacks, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) finds in its first cyber threat landscape...Read more
Rail Vision secures deal with US-based client, starts talks on expanding cooperation to ATO
Israeli Rail technology company Rail Vision will deliver a Rail Vision Switch Yard System to a US-based rail and leasing services company, which will trial the system for a six-month period. The system is designed...Read more
Using multi-data environments in railway operations for actionable insights
For more than a year now, voestalpine Signaling Siershahn and Swedish software-as-a-service company Predge, active in predictive maintenance for rolling stock, have been working together on providing companies in the rail sector with actionable insights...Read more
Škoda Group acquires The Signalling Company to grow ETCS business
Škoda Group has acquired Belgian onboard safety software and signalling systems developer The Signalling Company, the Czech rolling stock manufacturer announced on Tuesday. The firm will be integrated as a signalling business unit within the...Read more
Polish infrastructure manager and universities to develop monitoring system
Polish rail infrastructure manager PKP PLK, together with Polish universities, will develop an extensive monitoring system, which will gather information such as noise level and vibrations linked to specific vehicles.Read more
What needs to happen before ERTMS may be implemented in rail?
BackgroundMany years ago, the European Union set itself the ambitious goal of making railways safe and interoperable. One of the key ways of achieving this goal is the implementation of the European Rail Traffic Management...Read more
Finland creates EULYNX interface adapter to allow old and new tech to work together
Finland will adopt the open-standard EULYNX interface in railway network signalling systems. What is novel about the Finnish approach is that an specially designed adaptor will be used to apply the EULYNX compliant interface. This...Read more
PKP PLK commissions first pantograph inspection unit in Poland
Polish rail infrastructure manager PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe has taken its first pantograph inspection installation into use. By detecting faults in pantographs, the more than 100 annual failures in the overhead line network as a...Read more
Why new legal requirements are necessary for better cyber security in rail
BackgroundFor most of its history, rail has been a sector rather closed to new technologies. In terms of its operation to date, the key aspect emphasised both at legislative and executive level has been security...Read more
RFI names suppliers for ETCS onboard equipment in Italian trains
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) named Hitachi, MERMEC STE of France, Caterpillar subsidiary ProgressRail and Alstom earlier this month as the four companies to supply and install ETCS onboard equipment for rolling stock using Italy’s SCMT...Read more