Network Rail has delivered its biggest signalling upgrade in Bristol at the begining of April. The project involved removing the 1970s analogue signalling and installing and testing new digital signalling equipment. Following this operation, most of the signals in Bristol will be controlled from a state of the art signalling centre in Didcot rather than the 1970s signalling room behind Bristol Temple Meads station. The work, estimated at £130 million (EUR 149 million), will enable Great Western Railway (GWR) to deliver more frequent services to London, with quicker journeys and more seats per train from 2019.
This is the third of a four stage £250 million (EUR 287 million) project to entirely resignal Bristol Temple Meads and the surrounding area. The final phase of the project will take place at Easter 2019. The project, which forms part of Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan, combined with doubling the number of tracks between Bristol Parkway and Bristol Temple Meads later this year, will transform travel into Bristol, enabling GWR to continue introducing new trains as part of their biggest fleet upgrade for a generation.
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