CHILEAN State Railways (EFE) has awarded Bombardier a $US 21m contract to supply and install ETCS Level 1 on the 22km Santiago Alameda – Nós line, the first commercial deployment of ERTMS in Chile and only the second in South America.
THE European Commission (EC) announced on October 17 that the EU transport infrastructure budget for 2014-20 will be €26.25bn, a threefold increase over the allocation for 2007-13, and the funds will be allocated to a new 'core network' of nine corridors with emphasis on improving east-west links.
Following the completion of its early deployment project in Wales, Network Rail has begun preparing for the introduction of ERTMS on some of the busiest parts of the British network. Keith Barrow looks at how the programme is progressing.
Denmark, which is already investing heavily in its railway, is looking to ramp up spending even further in a bid to slash rail journey times between its main cities. David Briginshaw reports on these ambitious plans.
IRJ at Nordic Rail: Testing is set to commence in November on Norwegian infrastructure manager Jernbaneverket's pilot ERTMS project.
BRITAIN's infrastructure manager, Network Rail, has awarded a £140m contract to Signalling Solutions Ltd, a joint venture of Alstom and Balfour Beatty Rail, to resignal part of the Great Western Main Line.
NORWEGIAN infrastructure manager Jernbaneverket says it is ready to launch pilot operation of ERTMS in the southeast of the country in the next stage of preparations for the national rollout of the system.
SPANISH development minister Mrs Ana Pastor has announced a range of measures aimed at improving safety across the whole rail network after the accident at Santiago de Compostela on July 26, which left 79 dead and dozens injured.
HUNGARY's National Infrastructure Development Agency (NIF) has issued a tender notice for a contract to equip the Budapest – Lökösháza section of European Corridor IV with ETCS Level 2.
During Global Transport Forum's signalling and train control conference in Vienna in March Mr Jos Holtzer, with Netherlands Railways passenger rolling stock and energy division, questioned whether GSM-R in its current guise is able to support ETCS reliably. David Briginshaw was there to hear Holtzer's radical comments and proposals.
