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Hitachi Rail

Mainline Rail Control & Supervision

Mainline railway operators are under pressure to offer safer, more reliable and smoother journeys to their passengers than ever before.

Whether operators are looking to increase capacity, frequency or reliability of their networks, Hitachi Rail’s innovative technologies can help to improve performance while reducing operating and maintenance costs.

At Hitachi Rail, we provide mainline solutions to regional and national rail networks across the world. Our wide range of rail solutions can revitalise existing rail networks or deliver state of the art greenfield installations. Whether it is a signalling solution, fare collection management, integrated communications system or a traffic management system, our experts work with our customers to prepare their infrastructure for the transport and technological needs of today and tomorrow. 

We are proud to have been a founding member of Shift2Rail, now Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking, the European initiative developing digital innovation and designing the future European rail systems such as ETCS.

Having delivered over 26,000km of main line railway signalling systems around the world, Hitachi Rail is best positioned to support any mainline customer in optimising their network.

Hitachi Rail offers a complete portfolio of ETCS solutions for turnkey projects in the same way as for green field or brown field installations. We offer cyber security and special functionalities in compliance with international specifications. These include Driver Advisory Systems, Automatic Train Operation, IP-based radio communication and advanced diagnostics. Hitachi Rail delivers cutting-edge signalling and traffic management systems that can span seamlessly across national borders. Our global offering covers the full spectrum of safety and none safety critical components of signalling and traffic management systems.

Our offering of supply and full system integration includes:

  • ERTMS Systems

  • ETCS Signalling

  • Automatic Train Operation over ETCS

  • Operations Control Centres including Traffic Management and network optimisation for conventional and ERTMS systems.

  • Conventional on board and way side signalling

  • Telecoms, including Satellite GNSS for ETCS

  • Interlocking

  • Wayside Train Separation

  • Operations

  • Service & Maintenance

  • Digital Asset Management

  • Components

  • Cybersecurity

  • Rolling stock