Appenzeller Bahnen to automate Rheineck–Walzenhausen rail
Appenzeller Bahnen (AB) has applied to the Swiss Federal Office of Transport for permission to convert its 1.90 km Rheineck–Walzenhausen […]
Signalling
Britain celebrates first ‘no signals’ commuter railway
Britain’s Great Northern ‘Northern City Line’ has become the country’s first commuter railway to operate without signals at the side […]
Freight loco ETCS fitment under UK NFP Programme
Network Rail announced that a step forward is being taken towards the challenge of fitting ETCS in-cab signalling equipment to […]
EUR 95.6 million signalling upgrade for Jaén–Córdoba rail route
Adif will invest EUR 95.6 million in the renewal of signalling systems along a further stretch of the conventional Madrid–Alcázar […]
Signalling contract for Santiago suburban line
EFE Trenes de Chile awarded Alstom a maintenance contract for the delivery of signalling systems for the 23 km Santiago […]
Rail wins again with largest share of CEF funding
European rail projects secured 77% of the EUR 2.8 billion in EU grants under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), amounting […]
Hitachi Rail wins CBTC and SCADA contract in New Taipei City
Gamuda, the prime contractor for the New Taipei City Government’s Department of Rapid Transit Systems (NTCG DORTS) awarded Hitachi Rail […]
Adif awards EUR 100 million safety systems maintenance contract
Adif has awarded a EUR 100 million contract for support services in the maintenance of railway safety systems across its […]
Agreement to eliminate mobile blackspots on Britain’s lines
Network Rail and telecoms companies, Neos Networks and Freshwave signed an agreement named Project Reach to boost connectivity and remove […]
Washington restores ATO on entire metro network
The Washington Metro is now operating using Automatic Train Operation (ATO), six months after the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority […]