Thales UK has been awarded contracts worth a combined £28.8 million to cover the deployment of traffic management technology at Network Rail’s Cardiff and Romford operating centres by 2015.

In a bid to create a more affordable, higher performance railway, Network Rail has awarded contracts for the first phase of a new nationwide traffic management system for Britain’s railways. Their operating strategy has traffic-management technology at the centre of it, creating a consolidated control of Britain’s rail network from more than 800 signal boxes into 12 state-of-the-art rail operating centres over the next 15 to 30 years.

Network Rail aims to cut the cost of Britain’s railways by £250million each year whilst improving industry efficiency, reducing delays and providing more accurate and timely information to staff and passengers.

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