Passengers have been thanked for their patience at the midway point of an extensive programme of East Coast Main Line improvements. A range of upgrades are taking place between York and Newcastle over four weekends this month, and Sunday 15 March also included important digital signalling testing carried out in Hertfordshire. Over the next two […]
Category: Signalling and Telecoms
Signalling overhaul nears completion, affecting services on the Leeds–Knaresborough route
An important milestone in a signalling upgrade project will affect passenger services between Leeds and Knaresborough on Sunday 22 March. Network Rail is carrying out improvement work between Horsforth station and Armley Junction from 19 January to 30 March. This involves replacing life-expired signal control cases, track circuit equipment and signals to improve the reliability […]
Network Rail begins next phase of upgrades on Portsmouth Direct Line
Network Rail is continuing its major investment in the Portsmouth Direct Line and will carry out the next phase of signalling and track upgrades later this month. While this work takes place, buses will replace trains between Havant, Fareham and Portsmouth Harbour from Saturday 28 March to Thursday 2 April. This latest phase will see […]
The Signalling Company’s ETCS wins Railtech Innovation Award
The Signalling Company has announced that it has won the RailTech Europe Innovation Award. During the Railtech ’26 networking dinner, its sofware-defined ETCS system won the Innovation Award by unanimous decision of the jury, reinforced by the public vote. “We would like to thank the Jury, UNIFE director General Enno Wiebe, Karel van Gils, senior […]
Metro Control Room set for an £8.8 million upgrade
The Tyne and Wear Metro Control Room is set for an £8.8 million upgrade to key systems essential to the day-to-day operation of the system. Technology which manages key assets, including Metro power supply, fire and intruder alarms, lighting, lifts, escalators, and tunnel drainage pumps, will be renewed to an upgraded digital standard. The current […]
EMR warns of extremely busy services ahead of major engineering works
East Midlands Railway (EMR) is advising customers to plan ahead and allow extra time when travelling on Sunday March 15 as major engineering work will mean some services will be extremely busy. This Sunday there will be no LNER trains between London King’s Cross and Peterborough as part of digital signalling upgrades by Network Rail. […]
Passengers advised of major upgrade work starting this weekend
Passengers are being reminded that a programme of major improvement work is taking place on the East Coast Main Line from this weekend (Saturday 7 March). A range of railway upgrades are planned for various sites between York and Newcastle for four weekends: 7-8, 14-15, 21-22 and 28-29 March. There will also be digital signalling […]
Network Rail thanks passengers as ECML upgrades hit milestones
Network Rail is thanking passengers for their patience following several weekends of significant improvement work on the East Coast Main Line, including successful testing of digital signalling equipment. Over the past two weekends, the East Coast Digital Programme (ECDP) has successfully completed a full programme of testing ahead of the introduction of digital in-cab signalling […]
First trains return after nine-day Manchester Piccadilly track upgrades
Network Rail and its partner Central Rail Systems Alliance overhauled large sections of track and surrounding infrastructure across six lines between 14-22 February. During the nine-day closure, engineers replaced: The newly installed infrastructure updates track which was last replaced in the late 1980s. Impressive time-lapse footage released today (23 February) shows the sheer scale of […]
Public invited to share views on Huddersfield TRU upgrades
Between Standedge and Gledholt in Huddersfield, the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) is proposing a series of upgrades designed to support electrification and increased capacity on the route. These include improvements at Marsden and Slaithwaite stations, the reconstruction of a number of bridges and highways, and the installation of new track, signalling and cabling. Overhead line […]