Highlights'
* Alstom will provide state-of-the-art digital train control, traffic management solutions and electrification infrastructure for this project.
* Alstom will provide ERTMS Level 2, digital traffic control solutions and electrification in two lots covering 66 km of double railway line, enabling speed of 160 km/h for passenger trains and 120 km/h for freight
* Alstom's digital control centre installed in Cluj will manage the traffic on the entire railway line totalling 166 km
* Arcada will oversee the civil works
* The modernisation projects are financed through Romania's National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR)
Alstom, global leader in smart and sustainable mobility, has been awarded two new signalling and electrification contracts in Romania, as part of modernisation works on the first two sub-sections of the Cluj Napoca-Oradea line. The two contracts were signed by Asocierea RailWorks consortium, consisting of Alstom and Romanian civil works company Arcada, with CFR SA, the Romanian state rail infrastructure operator. Alstom will provide state-of-the-art digital train control, traffic management solutions and electrification infrastructure and Arcada will carry out all the civil works. The implementation period for each contract is 42 months.
'These new contracts consolidate Alstom's leading position on the Romanian railway market, for both digital train control and electrification. In the recent years, Bucharest has become a strategic centre for Alstom's signalling expertise employing over 200 highly qualified engineers, whose expertise serves local projects, and international ones,' says Gabriel Stanciu, Alstom Managing Director for Romania, Bulgaria and the Republic of Moldova.
'These new contracts consolidate Alstom's leading position on the Romanian railway market, for both digital train control and electrification. In the recent years, Bucharest has become a strategic centre for Alstom's signalling expertise employing over 200 highly qualified engineers, whose expertise serves local projects, and international ones.'
Gabriel Stanciu
Alstom Managing Director for Romania, Bulgaria and the Republic of Moldova
The two contracts cover the modernisation of 66 km of double railway line between Cluj Napoca and Poieni (30 km for Cluj Napoca - Aghire? and 36 km for Aghire?-Poieni). It includes electrification, infrastructure and superstructure modernisation, signalling and telecommunication systems, as well as civil works. Alstom will directly oversee the ERTMS Level 2 deployment, implementation of the traffic control solution, the digital interlocking and passenger information systems, as well as electrification works including power supply and overhead contact line. The modernisation will enable the speed of 160 km/h for passenger trains and 120 km/h for freight.
For the electrification works, Alstom will supply two Traction Power Stations and its OCS3 catenary solution for main lines, leveraging its in-house capabilities at the manufacturing facility in Lecco, Italy, and its worldwide experience of OCS3 in commercial operation.
66 km of the Romanian Cluj-Oradea railway line to be modernised
>200 highly qualified engineers employed by Alstom with signalling expertise
Alstom is a global pioneer in its development and implementation and a worldwide leader in on-board digital train control equipment. ATLAS 200 is Alstom's ERTMS Level 2 solution allowing trains to run at higher speeds without physical lineside signals. In Europe, more than 30% of ERTMS Level 2 lines in service are provided by Alstom.
Alstom has been active in Romania for almost 30 years and is a market leader in railway electrification and signalling solutions. The company is responsible for implementing signalling or electrification solutions on more than 75% of the Northern branch of the Rhine-Danube railway corridor in Romania. The first CBTC urban signalling solution in the country is under implementation by Alstom on Bucharest's metro Line 5. The company has also been the provider of maintenance services for the Bucharest metro fleet for the last 18 years and a new long-term contract is in place, valid until 2036.
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Alstom, acting as the Head of a Temporary Association of Enterprises (ATI), consisting of Consorzio Integra, Icop, Euroferroviaria, with engineering assigned to companies including Systra Sotecni, SWS Engineering and Alstom, who will provide a new signalling system to the EAV Vesuvian lines.
The contract signed between the ATI and Ente Autonomo Volturno S.r.l. (EAV), the public transport operator in the Campania Region, is worth 292 million euro and provides for the construction of an innovative signalling system on more than 140 km of the Vesuvian lines with ACCM
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and ERTMS solutions, the most advanced system for the supervision and control of train operation available today.
'We are pleased to give a new impetus to mobility in the Naples metropolitan area with our ERTMS signalling system on more than 140 km of the line.'
Michele Viale
General Manager of Alstom Italy and President and CEO of Alstom Ferroviaria
In addition, it is planned to upgrade the railway and technological installations and infrastructure works (stations, tunnels, works of art) on the Castellammare-Sorrento section allowing a maximum traffic capacity of one train every twelve minutes.
The project also includes an Alstom solution for substations that saves energy and costs by feeding more than 99% of the energy generated by the train braking back into the grid.
The work will be carried out by June 2026 and will only be done at night, so there won't be any service interruption for users.
>140 km of line covered by our ERTMS signalling system
>99% of the energy generated by the braking of rolling stock is feeded back into the grid
EUR292 M The contract is worth 292 million euro
'We are pleased to give a new impetus to mobility in the Naples metropolitan area with our ERTMS signalling system on more than 140 km of the line,' said Michele Viale, General Manager of Alstom Italy and President and CEO of Alstom Ferroviaria. 'The proposed system meets the technical specifications required by the European Union and CENELEC
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standards for railway safety, guaranteeing the highest safety standards. The contract signed with EAV further confirms Alstom's expertise in suburban mobility.'
'The contract signed with Alstom will make it possible to bring EAV's Vesuvius railway infrastructure up to national and European best practices with a radical railway overhaul, as well as civil and technological works on the Castellammare-Sorrento section. The works are financed with various funds and demonstrate EAV's spending capacity with the achievement of the planned objectives by 31.12.2022, as required by EU regulations,' said EAV President Dr. Umberto de Gregorio. He also thanked the Design and Execution Manager Ing. Pasquale Sposito and the Contracting Manager Dr. Filippo Porzio, as well as all staff functions, for the rapid completion of the procedure, conducted according to the innovative formula of competitive dialogue, also involving multiple specialists.
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Apparatus Computerised Multi-Station Control Panel
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European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation
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