Transmitton - the Automatic Choice for Glasshoughton Rail Link
17 November 2004 16:02
Rail control systems company Transmitton has been awarded a prestigious contract to design, supply and commission a cutting-edge, fully automatic management system for a new station being created on the site of the former Glasshoughton Colliery.
The 135-hectare former colliery and coking site in Castleford, West Yorkshire has been transformed over the past seven years by an exciting £100 million development which is creating retail, sports and leisure facilities alongside housing and industrial units. As well as a Freeport designer shopping outlet, Glasshoughton includes the spectacular Xscape snowdome, an indoor ski and toboggan centre with real snow, which opened in October 2003.
The new greenfield site station, being built on the branch line between Castleford and Leeds by developers Waystone for West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, will be used by Arriva Trains Northern services. Fully automatic and unmanned, the system designed by Transmitton allows for synchronised train arrivals and departures through an integrated station management system providing customer information, long line public address, digital CCTV and help points.
The system utilises the company’s core product cromos, already widely used in rail, oil and gas industry applications worldwide, driven by Microsoft Windows 2000. The absence of Train Describer information sources in the area means that the accuracy of customer information systems and train movements on platforms will be synchronised by train mass detectors – the same technology used in Transmitton’s information system designed for St Pancras Station in London.
Transmitton was sub-contracted to design the station retail telecoms systems by international multi-disciplinary consultants Scott Wilson, who designed the station. SW project director Mike Lipscombe said: "We have been involved with the development of Glasshoughton since 1980 and are pleased to have been working with Transmitton at this stage in the project." The system design was incorporated without change by Scott Wilson and accepted by the rail companies involved. Having supplied both hardware and software, Transmitton engineers will go on to commission the systems and train the operators and maintenance personnel.
Transmitton’s managing director Ian Wright said: “We are delighted to be working alongside Scott Wilson and Waystone on this greenfield site station project. This is a very significant contract for us as it will be the first synchronising station in the UK using our revolutionary real-time train movement system.”
Other recent key rail contracts for Transmitton have included: Ryde Esplanade and Pierhead stations on the Isle of Wight, London St Pancras interim station, Southern Region Power Supply Upgrade, East Coast Mainline, Docklands Light Railway and London City Airport extension.
For more information on this company:
Transmitton - Integrated Control and Asset Management Solutions for the Rail Industry
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