Swiss Federal Railways awarded Alstom a EUR 16 million contract to upgrade the on-board train control systems of its entire Astoro fleet, representing 19 Pendolino high-speed trains previously delivered by Alstom.
The trains will be equipped with the ATLAS ETCS Level 2 baseline 3, the newest application of ERTMS, and will have the national system as a specific transmission module piloted by ERTMS.
This project will be led by Alstom’s signalling teams based in Bologna and Florence in Italy. Alstom’s site in Savigliano will also be involved for the necessary adaptation of the trains and the company’s teams in Neuhausen (Switzerland) will take part in the project supervision and be in charge of the customer management.
Under this new ETCS baseline 3 system, the train will be able to operate in Switzerland, Italy, Germany and Austria. This signalling project is also the first to be homologated by the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA).
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