Thales has begun drafting the construction project, after which work will start on the signaling and telecommunications installations for the Eastern Bypass. This section will cover 17.5 kilometers in this direction, including a 1,130.5-meter viaduct and a 2,192-meter tunnel, thus avoiding crossing urban areas.
The locomotive manufacturer Softronic from Romania commissioned Thales with the delivery and equipping of five LEMA locomotives with ETCS(European Train Control System) Level 2 and PZB vehicle equipment for transnational operation in Romania, Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia.
As part of the ambitious plan to transform Egypt's railway infrastructure driven by the country's Ministry of Transport, Thales has once again delivered on its commitment by delivering the new key stations, Tanta, Sedfa and Al Ousayrat.
Ahead of Railtex 2022 exhibition in London, Thales announced the launch of its enhanced Train Protection and Warning System (TPWS) Mk4 Single Cab Control Unit, expanding on over 20 years of excellent reliability and availability, and delivering major enhancements, all through a simple, time-saving and cost-efficient software upgrade.
After the successful contract award of the Axle Counter in 2021, in which Thales supplies the axle counting systems for new ERTMS track sections, ProRail continues to show its trust to Thales by awarding the ERTMS contract.
The Mediterranean Corridor is a strategic project to build a standard gauge railway axis between the French border and Algeciras as part of one of the nine corridors of the Core Network of the Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T).
Société de transport de Montréal (STM) awarded Thales a contract extension to provide new computer based interlocking systems to eight additional metro stations, which will complete the upgrades across all lines of the rapid transit system in Montrea
With a common ambition to deliver reliable and sustainable rail journeys, Thales and SMRT Trains recently inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate and leverage digital technologies such as data analytics to enhance rail maintenance and operations on the nation’s oldest MRT lines – the North-South and East-West lines, including the Tuas West Extension.
ProRail has selected Thales to implement its ERTMS Central Safety System into the Dutch railway network in order to achieve a much safer and more sustainable railway traffic network for the Netherlands
Prasarana Malaysia Berhad, one of Malaysia’s largest transport operators, will rely on Thales to integrate its signalling supervision and control systems, which manage SelTrac CBTC and AlTrac ETCS L1 platforms, along with Network Management and backup systems, into the new Kuala Lumpur Integrated Control Centre (ICC).