HUNGARY: Infrastructure development agency NIF has awarded Thales Austria a contract to design and supply ETCS Level 2 for the 101 km Boba - Bajánsenye section of Pan-European Corridor V, and adapt existing Level 1 equipment.
The EU is meeting 85% of the €18m cost of the project, which will enable maximum speeds on the route to be increased by 20 km/h to between 160 km/h and 200 km/h.
SOUTH KOREA: Hyundai Rotem has awarded Thales a contract to supply communications-based train control signalling for the 12 km extension of the Sin Bundang Line driverless metro near Seoul. Thales installed SelTrac CBTC on the initial 18·5 km section of the line which opened for revenue service between Gangnam ...
TURKEY: National railway TCDD has awarded Thales a €20m contract to install ETCS Level 2 and GSM-R communications on the existing 251 km high speed section of the Ankara - Istanbul route. Deployment of Level 2 in place of the present Level 1 supervision is expected to increase capacity on ...
HUNGARY: Infrastructure agency NIF has awarded Siemens a €53m contract to supply ETCS Level 2 equipment for the 65 km route running southwest from Budapest-Kelenföld to Székesfehérvar. Commissioning is scheduled for 2013. Siemens said on July 26 that its plants in Budapest, Wallisellen and Braunschweig would provide two Simis electronic ...
