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
Birmingham’s brutalist box bows out
The power signal box on the edge of Birmingham New Street station has finally come to the end of its working life. Last Christmas, 57 years after being commissioned as part of the radical overhaul...Read more
New business models to bring innovation to international rail-retail
Partner contentBooking an international train journey, especially one involving several countries, can present difficulties. Well-known rail YouTuber Thibault Constant in recent comments to RailTech compared it to solving a Rubik’s cube. Mark Mallants and Leen Dewicke...Read more
Thales bags contract for modernisation Madrid-Sevilla high-speed line
Thales has won the Adif contract for the renewal of the field cabinets and associated equipment of the Falling Object Detection Systems (DCO) for the Madrid-Sevilla high-speed line, as well as various other modernisation works,...Read more
Alstom and partners demonstrate shunting operations at GoA4
Alstom, Dutch infrastructure manager ProRail and rail freight company Lineas on Tuesday demonstrated the operation of a shunting locomotive on Grade of Automation (GoA) Level 4. Dutch sister publication SpoorPro joined the demonstration of some...Read more
UK East Coast Digital signalling upgrade means January diversions
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
Sqills pushes new boundaries as unit of Siemens Mobility
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
Can cross-border ticketing become European?
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
Rise of the machines: Network Rail puts Artificial Intelligence on track
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
How combining data can make the most of train monitoring
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
Webinar: voestalpine and DSB on making the most of train monitoring
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
Alstom to install ETCS on 120 Belgian SNCB locomotives
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
Germany gets ready to speed up DAC retrofitting with 150 workshops
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