ATO prototype prepared for two-year trial in France
SNCF and several partners are fine-tuning the operating system of an ATO train prototype, after which a two-year trial phase will start. The Regio 2N train with GoA2 will operate on the railway net in...Read more
Thales to install ETCS Level 2 in Finland
Thales has been selected to provide and install ETCS Level 2 signalling on the Kotka-Kouvola-Hamina line. It will be the first ETCS Level 2 track in Finland, which will prepare for the launch a nation-wide...Read more
ERTMS level 2 installation complete on Polish high-speed line
Alstom, Thales and Nokia have completed a high-speed signalling upgrade in Poland. The consortium has installed ERTMS/ETCS Level 2 on the E65 railway line which links Warsaw with Gdynia. The project was based on a...Read more
Replacing the train detection in the port of Rotterdam
In the coming years, the current train detection system of track circuits in the Dutch port of Rotterdam on the port railway is being replaced by axle counters. The project is the first large-scale application...Read more
DB Cargo tested ATO on Switzerland’s public rail network
DB Cargo recently conducted a practical test with ATO on ETCS on the Swiss main rail network. In three and a half months, on-board units from four different suppliers were tested. Baseliyos Jacob from DB...Read more
Thales launches eighth generation CBTC train control system
Thales presented various new digital applications during a press conference last week. One is a new version of the supplier’s Communications Based Train Control (CBTC) system called SelTracTM G8. This variant has a new digital...Read more
Shunting on Dutch marshalling yards remains possible without ERTMS
The infrastructure of the ERTMS track section between the Dutch yards Kijfhoek and Roosendaal will be set up in such a way that shunting locomotives on the railway yards in Lage Zwaluwe and Roosendaal can...Read more
Thales delivers ETCS Level 2 on-board units to Harsco Rail
Thales Germany is providing ETCS Level 2 on-board systems for new Multipurpose Stoneblower maintenance machines for an operation in the United Kingdom. Harsco Rail and Thales Germany are together equipping four vehicles with ETCS Baseline...Read more
Thales to digitise signalling system for Deutsche Bahn
Technology company Thales will digitise the train signalling system for Deutsche Bahn (DB) in the Stuttgart region. The job is part of the railway company’s Digital Rail Germany programme and should allow capacity expansion without...Read moreThales and Siemens selected for next fase Dutch ERTMS-tender
Dutch rail infrastructure manager ProRail has selected suppliers Thales and Siemens for the dialogue phase of the tender for the Central Safety System (CSS) ERTMS, the new digital rail security system. The contract will run...Read more
Thales upgrades seven Egyptian train stations with signalling system
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
New locations for Thales CBTC technology in Asia
French technology group Thales is continuing to improve metro networks in Asia. It will deploy its SelTrac communication-based train control system on the metro lines in South Korea, China and Turkey. The CBTC solution allows...Read moreThales to replace end-of-life axle counters in Netherlands
This year, technology company Thales will start replacing thousands of axle counters and hundreds of associated system boxes. These sensors on the track, spread across the Netherlands, ensure safe train detection on routes that do...Read more