A consortium led by French technology group Thales has been awarded a contract worth €100m from PKP Polish Lines to implement a European railway traffic management system (ERTMS).

The contract seeks to reduce running costs and improve the system’s efficiency on long cross-border distances and is in line with the modernisation of the Polish railway network.

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Work under the contract includes the implementation of an ERTMS solution, including an European train control system (ETCS) level two signalling system and a global system for mobile communications for rail (GSM-R) communications system, on two sections of the Warszawa-Lódz Line.

"Thales will improve safety and increase the maximum speed to 160kmph for passenger trains."

The ETCS is an automatic train control system, while the GSM-R is based on the GSM mobile telephony standard, and is used to exchange information between the ground and the train.

The Warszawa Zachodnia-Koluszki and Koluszki- Lódz Widzew sections have a combined length of approximately 125km.

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Thales will improve safety and increase the maximum speed to 160kmph for passenger trains and 120kmph for freight trains, increasing the line capacity.

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The company will also design and operate a local control centre in Skierniewice, under the agreed terms of the contract; the fourth to implement Thales’s ETCS system in Poland.

Thales has installed ETCS and GSM-R solutions on over 700km and 500km of the Polish railway network respectively.