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February 21, 2019 | Infrastructure

FS to invest €14.6bn to upgrade Lombardy rail network

THE managing director and director general of Italian State Railways (FS), Mr Gianfranco Battisti, and the CEO of Italian Rail Network (RFI), Mr Maurizio Gentile, outlined plans to invest €14.6bn to upgrade the railway network in Lombardy between now and 2025 to the president of Lombardy Region, Mr Attilio Fontana, on February 20.

February 20, 2019 | Infrastructure

Irish Rail to install national train protection system

IRISH Rail (IE) has awarded a contract to the Turas joint venture of German Rail (DB), Egis and CPC Project Services to manage the equipment of its 2400km 1600mm-gauge network with automatic train protection (ATP).

February 19, 2019 | Signalling

Siemens awarded Medellín metro resignalling contract

THE Colombian city of Medellín has awarded Siemens a €42m contract to modernise signalling and automation systems on Line 1 of the city’s two-line metro, along with the Patio de Bello depot.

February 1, 2019 | Signalling

Alstom prepares for Norwegian ERTMS rollout

ALSTOM has begun inspecting three trains in preparation for the national rollout of ERTMS in Norway.

January 30, 2019 | Infrastructure

Network Rail selects preferred bidders for rail systems contracts

BRITAIN’s infrastructure manager Network Rail (NR) has selected preferred bidders for two of three regional rail systems contracts worth around £5bn.

January 30, 2019 | Signalling

New Swiss traffic management system to boost capacity

A new railway traffic management system based on ETCS is under development in Switzerland following the successful completion of a feasibility study in December 2018 under the Smartrail 4.0 programme.

January 22, 2019 | Telecoms

Luxembourg GSM-R rollout completed

KAPSCH CarrierCom has completed the roll-out of GSM-R on the 271km Luxembourg Railways (CFL) network as part of CFL’s network-wide implementation of ERTMS.

January 22, 2019 | Signalling

Baden-Württemberg backs Stuttgart S-Bahn ATO pilot

BADEN-Württemberg Ministry of Transport announced on January 22 that it will participate in a pilot project to install ETCS, digital interlockings (DSTW) and automatic train operation (ATO) Grade of Automation 2 (GoA2) on the Stuttgart S-Bahn network.

January 4, 2019 | Signalling

US still short of full PTC implementation

FULL implementation of Positive Train Control (PTC) across the United States railway network could still be two years away according to a report by the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) following the expiry of the previously federally-mandated deadline on December 31.

January 3, 2019 | Signalling

JR East starts ATO trials in Tokyo

EAST Japan Railway (JR East) started trials with automatic train operation (ATO) on the 34.5km circular Yamanote Line in Tokyo on December 29 as part of its plan to introduce driverless train operation under JR East’s Change 2027 initiative.

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