VIDEO WALL: Siemens and Barco have commissioned a rear-projected video wall at the Namur signalling centre of Belgian infrastructure manager Infrabel. A similar wall was already in service in Brugge, and a further 12 are to be installed across the country by 2012.
The wall ‘presents operators with all key information at a glance’ said Pol Caby of Siemens, which is supplying the equipment as leader of the Belgosignal consortium with Alstom.
SWEDEN: National transport agency Trafikverket has awarded engineering consultancy Lloyd’s Register a contract to provide third party assessment services for rail projects. This includes the provision of independent assessment body and notified body assurance services to ensure technical interoperability and compliance with the Common Safety Method ...
UK: Design Council has published ThinkStation , a report which was commissioned by Network Rail to provide a framework for the future design of ‘local’ stations. These are defined as Network Rail categories D, E and F, the smaller stations which make up around 80% of the ...
On June 30 Alstom acquired Ibre , which supplies cast iron or steel brake discs for rail vehicles. Now a whole owned subsidiary named Alstom Ibre, it employs around 30 people at its Sens site in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Ibre had a turnover of approximately €10m in 2019, ...
SPAIN: The RENFE board has selected CAF to supply 37 metre-gauge trains for its former FEVE routes under a contract worth €258m. Photo: Carmelo Zaita Among recent CAF designs for Spanish narrow gauge lines are these metre-gauge Series 950 EMUs operated by Euskotren. ...
FINLAND: Wabtec announced on June 26 that the first two of nine broad gauge PowerHaul diesel locomotives had been delivered to the port of Hanko in Finland for use by the local arm of Estonian state-owned operator Operail. The 1 524 mm gauge locomotives are being ...
Green Cargo has renewed contracts with two industrial customers for the transport of wood chips and pulpwood from Norway to Sweden. The contract extensions take effect from December and will see Green Cargo move the commodities on alternate days. Trains in Norway are operated in ...
