ANALYSIS – Since the separation of railway infrastructure management from rail operations, it has become more clear how important a good rail network is. Capacity should greatly be improved if the European railway system is...Read more
Over Easter, Banedanmark will carry out several works on the railway between Ringsted and Nykøbing Falster. The railway between Ringsted and the Fehmarnbelt tunnel will be electrified and fitted with ERTMS so that it is...Read more
The European Commission has granted SNCF Réseau 31 million euros to finance the installation of ETCS equipment on 252 passenger vehicles and freight locomotives. Additionally, the Caisse des Dépôts, a French government-backed agency, supports the...Read more
The roll-out of signalling system ERTMS on the Danish track between the cities Køge and Næstved in Zealand is entering its final phase. Infrastructure manager Banedanmark starts this week with testing the new signalling system,...Read more
The deployment of ERTMS is lagging behind schedule. In April 2020, the installation of the system reached just 78 percent of the target for 2019. Under the ERTMS European deployment plan, the EU signalling system...Read more
Bane NOR has awarded contractor Azvi the task of rehabilitating the Ulriken tunnel from 1964 between Arna and Bergen. A new tunnel through the mountain Ulriken was recently opened, and now Bane NOR will renovate...Read more
UK Rolling stock company Porterbrook has awarded a framework agreement to Bombardier Transportation to fit onboard signalling system ETCS to Bombardier Electrostar trains in the UK. The project falls under the UK’s Digital Railway Programme.Read more
Banedanmark has established a 3 kilometre long railway to Aalborg Airport, Denmarks’ third largest airport. It connects the North Jutland region better with the rest of the country and abroad. The line will be electrified...Read more
The Communication Based Train Control (CBTC) system is rolled out on the Farumbanen and Ringbanen S-lines in Denmark. They will be taken in operation on January 25. Until 2030, infrastructure manager Banedanmark will change all...Read more
Austrian rail infrastructure manager ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG has put a new digitalisation system into operation at the train station of Achau, Austria. The ‘Distributed Smart Safe System’ (DS3), developed by Siemens Mobility, is a universally deployable...Read more
Thales has commissioned its signalling system on seven stations across three of Egyptian National Railways’s major lines in the past six months. The existing mechanical signalling systems will be replaced with Electronic Interlocking Systems (EIS)...Read more
“ETCS corridors play a major role in Europe. The most important routes of the European rail traffic run through Germany,” was a statement that David Rathmer, Master Trainer at Deutsche Bahn (DB) Engineering and Consulting,...Read more
Danish rail infrastructure manager Banedanmark has equipped 100 trains that run on the intercity and regional lines with ETCS. More than 200 vehicles will be retrofitted with the new technology in the coming years. This...Read more
Railway lines in Germany will be equipped with digital interlocking technology by 2035, five years ahead of the original schedule. The country’s government will allocate 500 million euros to speed up the programme. In addition,...Read more
To intensify the ETCS development, The Signalling Company from Belgium decided to apply continuous integration, a well-known practice in programming. This approach will be used in its newly launched testing campaign. It is dedicated to...Read more