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  • Digital signalling enters service on the East Coast Main Line
  • First ETCS-Equipped Passenger Train Travels on East Coast Main Line
  • UK: Grand Central Fleet Approved for Digital In-Cab Signalling

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railwaypro.com /1 month ago

Digital signalling enters service on the East Coast Main Line

Passenger trains have used digital in-cab signalling on the East Coast Main Line for the first time, marking a major [...]

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railway-news.com /1 month ago

First ETCS-Equipped Passenger Train Travels on East Coast Main Line

Passenger trains travelling on the East Coast Main Line have made use of digital in-cab signalling for the first time. On Monday 31 August; the 08.05 Great Northern service to Moor...

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railway-news.com /2 days ago

UK: Grand Central Fleet Approved for Digital In-Cab Signalling

Grand Central’s Class 180 fleet has received APiS regulatory approval for its ‘first in class’ fitment of ETCS (European Train Control System). With this receipt of approval, Alsto...

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rcrwireless.com /1 month ago

Telecoms – it’s just not cricket (telco diary)

From the newsletter (September 9; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): Telecoms is moving deeper into AI infrastructure as networks become programmable, distributed and intell...

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railwaypro.com /1 month ago

ERTMS – a unified system at European level, but fragmented by national rules

ERTMS was designed as a European standard for control-command and signalling, but its trackside deployment remains heavily influenced by national [...]

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railway-news.com /1 month ago

Siemens and Rostocker Straßenbahn Trial Signaling X in Germany

Siemens Mobility and Rostocker Straßenbahn AG (RSAG) have started trial operations of Siemens’ Signaling X platform in Rostock, marking its first deployment in German urban public...

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railwaypro.com /1 month ago

Siemens is testing Signaling X in Germany for urban rail transport

Siemens Mobility and Rostocker Straßenbahn (RSAG), the public transport operator in the city of Rostock, have begun testing the innovative [...]

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railway-news.com /1 month ago

The Role of EULYNX and the zentrak OBJECT CONTROLLER PLATFORM

Growing expectations regarding availability, operational efficiency, and maintainability are driving the modernization of signalling and control systems. At the same time, infrastr...

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railway-news.com /1 week ago

Generic Object Controller Platforms: A Foundation for Future-Proof Signalling Architecture

Modernising control command and signalling (CCS) architecture is not simply a matter of replacing outdated components – it is an opportunity to rethink the underlying architecture...

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railway-news.com /1 day ago

New York Begins $1.9 Billion Subway Signalling Upgrade

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has begun a 1.9 billion USD project to replace 1930s-era signalling on the A and C subway lines in Brooklyn and Queens. Annou...

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railway-news.com /1 month ago

EULYNX-Based Object Controller and CTC System in the Digirail Project

The Digirail project introduces the first commercial ERTMS/ETCS Level 2 track section in Finland on the Tampere–Rauma/Pori line. The project is part of Finland’s national railway r...

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american-rails.com /1 month ago

Sep 22, The Trainphone: PRR's Wireless Radio System

Pennsylvania Trainphone—Union Switch & Signal inductive telephone. Bel-Del trial 1941, Frenchtown November 29, 1943. Carriers at 88 kHz and 144 kHz. Out of service April 30, 19...

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blogs.cisco.com /1 month ago

Rail Network Modernization: FRMCS, Sovereignty and the AI Edge

Join Cisco at InnoTrans 2026 to explore the next generation of rail networks. Discover how FRMCS, AI edge computing, and digital sovereignty are transforming critical infrastructur...

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railwaypro.com /1 week ago

Teleste to install passenger information systems in Belgian railway stations

Infrabel, the Belgian railway infrastructure manager, has selected the Finnish company Teleste to supply TFT LCD screens for passenger information [...]

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railway-news.com /1 month ago

Siemens Mobility’s Signaling X to Digitalise ÖBB Interlocking Infrastructure

Siemens Mobility has been awarded with a brand-new contract to digitalise Austria’s interlocking technology. The contract, worth approximately 1.3 billion EUR, was awarded by ÖBB-I...

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railwaypro.com /1 week ago

Alstom is expanding its digital rail traffic management system to cover 1,200 km in New Zealand

Alstom has commissioned a new phase of the digital rail traffic management system for KiwiRail, which now covers approximately 1,200 [...]

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railwaypro.com /2 weeks ago

Railway communications via public 4G and 5G networks

Kontron Transportation has secured a contract to modernise the railway communications of the German operator AKN Eisenbahn. The new solution [...]

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railway-news.com /3 weeks ago

Hitachi Rail Partners with ÖBB for Digitalisation of Austrian Signalling Infrastructure

Hitachi Rail has been awarded a nationwide 30-year, 1.3 billion EUR framework contract that will see the company introduce cutting-edge interlocking signalling technology across ÖB...

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railway-news.com /1 week ago

Alstom to Supply ETCS Across lreland’s National Rail Fleet

Alstom has signed new contracts with Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail) to deliver the onboard deployment of the European Train Control System (ETCS) across Ireland’s existing national r...

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railway-news.com /1 month ago

InnoTrans 2026: Rethinking Train Detection Through Digital Connectivity

At InnoTrans 2026, digitalisation has been framed as a major theme, with suppliers using the event to demonstrate how connected systems, data and software are changing railway infr...

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railway-news.com /1 month ago

How ETCS Rollout Planning Works When Geography, Assets and Train Fitment Need to Line Up

ETCS rollout planning is often described as a signalling programme, but the real challenge is much broader than deciding where ETCS should go next. The difficult part is working ou...

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railwaypro.com /1 month ago

ÖBB signs contracts worth EUR 2.6 billion for the digitalisation of the rail network

ÖBB-Infrastruktur has signed two contracts worth EUR 2.6 billion with Siemens Mobility and Hitachi Rail for the installation of digital [...]

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vninja.net /1 month ago

Introducing Signals

A new linkblog at signals.vninja.net for everything I bookmark but never write a full post about, heavily inspired by Tsugliani's

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american-rails.com /4 weeks ago

Sep 26, The Semaphore: Railroading's Classic Signal

Railroad semaphore signals: blade and spectacle, lower quadrant and upper quadrant, US&S Style B and GRS Model 2A, Robinson’s track circuit, and the last blades on the Raton Su...

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