Press Release: New standard signalling for trains in Europe

The European Commission adopted on 30 March 2006 Technical Specifications for Interoperability for control/command and signalling on the conventional trans-European railway network. At the moment, more than twenty different signalling and speed control systems are used in Europe, which means that most international passenger and goods trains still have to stop at the border station to change locomotive. The adopted Decision will allow these incompatible systems to be gradually replaced by a single system known by its abbreviation ERTMS.

• Primary Source

European Commission: Memo: MEMO/05/235: The ERTMS in ten questions, 4.7.05 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/05/235&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

European Commission: Press Release: IP/05/831: Five billion to be invested in rail signalling, 4.7.05 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/05/831&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

European Commission: Press Release: IP/05/321: ERTMS: a major European project for the rail networks, 17.3.05 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/05/321&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

European Commission: DG Energy and Transport: Rail Transport and Interoperability: Interoperability and ERTMS http://ec.europa.eu/comm/transport/rail/interoperability/ertms_en.htm

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