www.rail.co Latest Updates. 2nd February 2012

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• Alstom awarded LGV Est signalling contract            Réseau Ferré de France (RFF) has awarded a consortium, lead by Alstom, with a signalling contract for phase 2 of the East European LGV (LGV Est) high speed rail line. Alstom Transport and Legrand SA will carry out ‘all signalling studies and installation work’ on the line in the €40 million contract. Alstom will also [...]
• Bids open for £100m rail station improvement fund                The remaining pot of a £100m fund to improve stations in England and Wales is now open for bids from Network Rail, train operating companies and local authorities. The station project was launched by the Department for Transport, the Association of Train Operating Companies and Network Rail in April last year, with over £80m since [...]
• Local transport bodies to have control of schemes                Transport Secretary Justine Greening has announced proposals to give local communities and businesses control of decisions and budgets of large transport schemes in their areas. This new system could see capital funding decisions for local schemes devolved to ‘democratically accountable local transport bodies’. Currently all schemes over £5m must be approved by central government but [...]
• Invensys Rail awarded Glasgow resignalling contract                     Network Rail has awarded Invensys Rail a £35 million contract for the Glasgow South Suburban Resignalling (GSSR) project. Invensys Rail will design, manufacture, install and test the signalling systems. The GSSR area includes the Cathcart Signal Box area, the East Kilbride branch lines and the Barrhead lines up to the limit of control from the West [...]
• Reconnecting Royston                    The Hertfordshire town of Royston has become increasingly divided by the Hitchin-Cambridge railway line that runs through its centre as the town expanded each side of the line. With only two official crossings, on the by-pass at the northern end of town and next to the railway station at Kneesworth Street, there was evidence that [...]
• For Battersea “ Five new bridges and one new superstructure              On the south bank of the Thames, opposite Victoria station, on the disused site is Battersea Power Station. Alongside the power station there is another smaller but just as well known location, the Battersea Dogs & Cats home. Between these two locations are the Up and Down Fast and Reversible lines to Chatham that pass [...]
• Alstom to install new ERTMS in Denmark                  Alstom has been awarded a contract worth €300m to replace the existing signalling system in the east of Denmark. Alstom will install its Atlas ERTMS signalling solution on 12 intercity and regional lines in the Sealand and Fyn regions. The new systems will enable Banedanmark to ‘increase the traffic regularity and double the capacity of the [...]
• Turkish State Railways awards Thales signalling contract             Turkish State Railways has awarded Thales a €20 million signalling contract to install the ECTS Level 2 system on the country’s first high speed rail line. The contract also consists of GSM-R communications and automatic train protection along the 250km double-track Eskisehir-Sincan section of the Ankara-Istanbul high speed line. Turkey’s first high speed line was [...]