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Rail transportation is widely known as an excellent alternative to other modes of transportation in terms of Energy efficiency and Environmental friendliness. Nevertheless, operating a metro, which is transporting hundreds of thousands of passengers on a daily basis, is...

The state-of-the-art European Train Control System (ETCS) compliant to the latest UNISIG baseline (B3R2) has been successfully retrofitted by Thales to three of Porterbrook’s Class 43 High Speed Train vehicles, marking a major step forward for the UK Digital Railway Pro...

New train technology is being demonstrated to stakeholders that could make the UK rail network safer for track workers, train crews and passengers…

Network Rail has signed a contract with Thales to repurpose its tried-and-tested train detection system to replace ageing mechanical treadles at safety critical track locations…

The introduction of the signalling system ERTMS (European Rail Traffic Management System) is accompanied by a number of extensive tenders; one of them is the tender for the Generic Axle Counter System for ERTMS, abbreviated GAST-ERTMS. On Tuesday 7 December, ProRail and...

• Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA) adopts Thales’ Gates for Singapore’s Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) lines. • Designed with contactless technologies, the upgraded Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) gates will make the public transpor...

A data gathering system is being trialled which could make the UK’s rail network safer, reducing costs and delays, by identifying derailment-causing track geometry faults sooner.

For nearly two decades, the UK’s rail passengers have been able to plan journeys with confidence thanks to Darwin, a centralised train information system, which delivers easily accessible, accurate and consistent timetable updates to anywhere in the country… ...

Two and a half years after a consortium was launched to develop the prototype of an autonomous regional train in France, SNCF and its partners Alstom, Bosch, Spirops, Thales and the Railenium Technology Research Institute are putting their test train into operation. At ...

• Brescia is a city in the region of Lombardy in Northern Italy. With a population of more than 200,000, it is the second largest city in the region and the fourth of northwest Italy. The city is the administrative capital of the Province of Brescia, one of the largest ...