TRANSPORT for Wales (TfW) has awarded Siemens a three-year contract for the renewal and replacement of lineside signalling infrastructure as part of the Core Valley Lines Transformation programme.
The project will also include the creation of a new integrated control centre designed to improve reliability and increase the operational flexibility of the railway.
Siemens will manufacture, install, test and commission 50 new signals over 300 axle counter sections and 98 signalling location cases.
The new'intelligent' infrastructure will allowTfWto offer quicker journeys and a doubling of train frequencies to four trains per hour on all Core Valley Line routes radiating from Cardiff to Treherbert, Aberdare, Merthyr Tydfil, Coryton, Rhymney and Cwmbargoed.
Ownership of these lines was taken over by TfW from Network Rail in March 2020 and is now leased to Amey Keolis Infrastructure