Spain’s national railway infrastructure manager Adif has awarded a 10-year contract worth EUR 339 millions to Nokia Networks, Siemens and Thales to modernize and maintain the country’s railway communication system on high-speed train lines. The contract covers a 10 year period, from 2015-2024. This latest railway communications infrastructure and long-term maintenance
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The Spanish government plans to invest in the next four years EUR 1.26 bn in improving the suburban railway system, both infrastructure and rolling stock. It is the most important investment made in commuter rail transport since the launch of the service 20 years ago. According to Development Minister Ana Pastor,
First freight train between China and Spain arrives in Madrid
The first Yiwu – Madrid freight train has arrived on Tuesday at Adif’s Madrid Abroñigal railway logistics terminal, its final destination. The “Yixinou” pilot train left Yiwu, the largest wholesale hub for small consumer goods in China, on the 18th of November and traveled in 21 days over 13,000 km, passing through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany and France. The distance covered by
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Adif has awarded the joint venture (55/45) formed by Thales España and Siemens Rail Automation a contract for the installation of traffic control, automatic train protection, telecommunications and safety technologies on the Olmedo-Ourense high-speed line section, as well as for maintenance over a 20-year period. The amount of the contract
Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (ADIF), Spain’s state-owned railway infrastructure manager, is expanding and modernizing its Global System for Mobile Communications– Railway (GSM-R) infrastructure. The railway infrastructure manager is collaborating with Bombardier and Nokia Networks for the Valladolid-León and Venta de Baños-Burgos high-speed train lines. In a separate contract, ADIF is working directly
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