Siemens is to supply signaling technology for a main-line rail route covering around 380 kilometers from Samsun to Kalın. The line links the Turkish port of Samsun on the Black Sea with the railway junction of Kalın in Central Anatolia. Modernization of the signaling equipment enable the maximum speed to be increased from 70 to 120 km/h in order to cut the journey time between Samsun and Kalın from nine to five hours. Commissioning of the route is scheduled for 2017.
As well as supplying electronic interlockings, point machines and new level crossing and communications systems, Siemens will also fit-out the line’s operations control centre in Samsun.
Siemens has already supplied ETCS signalling on the main line between Bandirma to Menemen and the high-speed line between Konya and Ankara. Siemens technology is also in use in the Marmaray Tunnel, which runs under the Bosphorus between the European and Asian sides of Istanbul.
Around 150 million passengers a year are transported on the 10,000-plus kilometers of the Turkish rail network. Less than ten percent of the rail network is double tracked. Turkey is therefore planning to increase its economic output on the rails to strengthen its transportation and logistics sectors.
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