Up to 10 railway systems worldwide annually move to Communications-based train control (CBTC), completely or partially. For instance, last year it witnessed the first commissioning in Australia’s history…
Alstom, a global leader in smart and sustainable mobility, has announced the sale of its North American conventional signalling business to Knorr-Bremse AG for approximately 630 million euros.
Britain’s railway signalling and control system is set to undergo the biggest shake-up in the history of the network. The infrastructure agency, Network Rail, has announced a decade-long…
Lancaster University in the north of England, has claimed that solar flares could knock out signalling systems and cause red signals to turn green. The rather alarmist claims…
Waterloo Station in London, the busiest in Britain, was brought to a standstill by a massive signal failure in the early hours of Thursday, 13 April. The station…
It may be easier to win the National Lottery than to see inside an iconic example of 1960s brutalist railway architecture. Network Rail, the organisers of one-off public…
For most of its history, rail has been a sector rather closed to new technologies. In terms of its operation to date, the key aspect emphasised both at…
The power signal box on the edge of Birmingham New Street station has finally come to the end of its working life. Last Christmas, 57 years after being…
Network Rail is integrating new digital signalling systems across the British railway network, in an effort to improve safety and efficiency. The infrastructure agency says that the programme…