Categories: automatic train operation

  • GTR passengers ride UK’s first self-drive mainline train

    GTR passengers ride UK’s first self-drive mainline train

    Services will run at Tube-like frequencies thanks to new technology 12 routes to cross London, speeding up journeys Helps boost capacity by 60,000 passengers in 2019
    MONDAY, 23 MARCH 2018: Govia Thameslink Railway passengers have ridden the UK’s first self-drive mainline train in a major milestone for the industry.
    The Thameslink trains will in future use the technology, developed by Siem

  • ATO has been used for the first time in passenger service over the ETCS in-cab signalling system

    World-first for ATO on mainline railway

    Govia Thameslink Railway, Network Rail and Siemens have scored a world-first by running ATO (Automatic Train Operation) over ETCS (European Train Control System) on the mainline railway in passenger service

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