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ETCS Level 1 from Greece to Bulgaria

Christos Vinis, President and CEO of the infrastructure manager ErgOSE, has announced that the signalling with ETCS Level 1 of the section Platy - Thessaloniki (northern part of the Athens - Thessaloniki magistrale) has been completed.

09. März 2022

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Accurate train location data trial in Great Britain

Potential uses of very precise train location data are being assessed from a trial installation of Thales’ Robust Train Positioning System on a Great Western Railway Class 150 diesel multiple-unit in Great Britain.

10. März 2022

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Thales to supply ERTMS Central Safety System to ProRail

Dutch infrastructure operator ProRail has named Thales as the best bidder for the delivery of the ERTMS Central Safety System (CSS).

15. März 2022

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Hitachi Rail wins ERTMS framework contract from RFI

Hitachi Rail has been awarded a framework contract by Italian infrastructure operator RFI to develop and implement ERTMS on 700km of railway lines worth EUR 500 mio.

15. März 2022

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ETCS laboratory: first stage to go into operation at the end of 2022

The future German ETCS laboratory of the Federal Railway Authority (EBA) and the German Centre for Rail Transport Research (DZSF) is to actively advance the research and development of the European train control system.

16. März 2022

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Development of a Safe Computing Platform started

The conversion of the rail industry to digital technologies poses special challenges in terms of safety, especially on the software side. These are to be met with the specification of a Safe Computing Platform.

17. März 2022

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"Things must be thought of together"

ETCS, ATO and FRMCS must be thought together without paralysing each other through too strong dependencies in technology development, says publishing director Manuel Bosch.

17. März 2022

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VDV demands financial support for ETCS equipment on private infrastructure

The infrastructure of non-federally owned railways (NE) must be taken into account when equipping the railway network with ETCS as part of "Digital Rail Germany" (DSD) in order to enable uniform ETCS operation.

22. März 2022

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Alstom starts ETCS installation on vehicles for Stuttgart

On 21 March 2022, the first class 423 S-Bahn vehicle from Stuttgart arrived at Alstom's Hennigsdorf plant to be equipped with the ETCS onboard unit.

24. März 2022

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German EBA considers series approval necessary again for rapid ERTMS rollout

The German Federal Railway Authority (EBA) is calling for the reintroduction of series approval in order to be able to quickly put rail vehicles back into service after an ERTMS retrofit.

24. März 2022

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New 5G solution for rail from the UK

Evo-Rail, a spin-off of the University of Bristol and now part of FirstGroup, has developed a new end-to-end solution to provide trains with the 5G mobile communications standard. At its core are the new radio units on the train.

29. März 2022

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Ricardo becomes AsBo for automation of the Copenhagen S-Bane

Ricardo Certification has been appointed as the Assessment Body (AsBo) for the transformation of Copenhagen’s S-Bane railway into a fully automated system.

29. März 2022

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“Foster interactions at all levels”

From 26 to 28 April 2022, the ERTMS Conference 2022 of the European Agency for Railways (ERA) will take place in Valenciennes, France. The focus will be on current findings and developments around the implementation of ERTMS, but also on the revision of the TSI CCS. In the run-up to the conference, Josef Doppelbauer, Executive Director of ERA, gives an outlook on the event.

30. März 2022

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"The incident underscores the importance of cyber security"

The cyberattack on the Italian railway system shows that cyber security does not remain a theoretical topic for control and command technology either, says publishing director Manuel Bosch.

31. März 2022

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Danish units no longer in Germany after ETCS installation

The 17 type IC3 diesel multiple units of the Danish State Railways (DSB) equipped with the German safety system Indusi/PZB will lose their approval for Germany after the installation of ETCS on-board devices.

07. April 2022