In 1863, an underground railway between Paddington and Farringdon was opened. Dubbed the ‘Metropolitan Line,’ this revolutionary service allowed steam trains to haul nearly 40,000 passengers in gas-lit wooden carriages, between eight stations. It was the start of some...
Trevor joined Alcatel in February 2003 before it merged with Thales and he has now been at the company 16 and a half years. After graduating with a degree in Computer Science and moving to Korea to study for his MBA, Trevor began his career by working for a bio medical...
The Four Lines Modernisation project (4LM), is the world’s largest signalling upgrade, across four of London Underground’s most important railway lines: Circle, District, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan.
In the digital age identifying problems before they strike is essential to keeping towns, cities and countries productive and safe. As a Technical Solutions Architect, Nathan Marlor is helping Thales use data in new ways, and developing solutions to make life more effi...
Thales and its transport industry contemporaries are working hard to shake the image commonly associated with working on the road or railway. ‘Boring’, ‘full of old train spotters’ and a job better suited to the early 1900s are common views of working in the industry…
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Last Friday BBC London and a number of Trade Press representatives joined Andy Bell, VP, Urban Rail Signalling Thales UK, and Stuart Harvey Systems Programme Director, London Underground, at the Rail Innovation & Development Centre (RIDC) in Melton
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“…when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford,” said writer and anthropologist Samuel Johnson in 1777. Imagine what would he say today!