Alstom has secured a contract worth €70 million to supply Atlas 200 on-board signalling equipment to the Belgian operator SNCB-NMBS for 449 trains in commercial service. Delivery will start in 2016.
The contract covers the design, manufacture, testing and approval of equipment for five different types of train, together with the supply and maintenance of these on-board signalling systems over a ten-year period. The equipment will be fitted to the trains by SNCB-NMBS. The Atlas 200 ERTMS level 2 solution complies with the most recent Technical Specifications for Interoperability . The solution is currently being deployed by Alstom in Denmark, Germany, Austria and Australia.
"This is Alstom's fifth contract to supply ETCS level 2 equipment compliant with Baseline 3. The decision to apply this standard now, which will be the only one authorized in a few years, gives rail operators the major benefit of avoiding migration operations," explains Marcel Miller, the chairman of Alstom Belgium.
