Thales is awarded a €61.5 million contract for the maintenance of the Spanish high-speed network

The contract includes the preventive and corrective maintenance work to resolve specific incidents occurring at the various line traffic control facilities, interlocking systems, train protection systems and associated elements. It is expected for these works to be carried out over a 36 month period between 2016 and 2019.
The Madrid-Seville High-Speed Line was inaugurated in 1992 and since 2005, Thales has been responsible for the maintenance of this line as well as that of the La Sagra-Toledo branch line.  The latter added 21km to the 470 km total dual-track length of the line. Thales has also been responsible for the maintenance work carried out on the 155 km long Cordoba-Malaga line since its inauguration in 2007.
In Spain, Thales’s ETCS signalling and telecommunications solutions are deployed on more than two-thirds of the country’s high-speed rail network. Thales boasts a wealth of experience in the planning and execution of train-line signalling and train control projects across the world, as well as in the subsequent maintenance of facilities.

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To be more specific, the control elements to be maintained are: L90 electronic locking systems, CTC, track circuits, L700 H and L826 elecro-hydraulic actioning for points, wheel sensors, lateral signalling, ASFA, LZB, ERTMS N1 and N2, energy systems, hot box and fallen objects detectors, feed cables and signalling, connection boxes and technical buildings