European Rail Traffic Management System

(asked on 25th February 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they consider that European Train Control System (ETCS) level 3 signalling will be installed successfully on the complete United Kingdom rail network within the 15 year timescale to which Network Rail is committed; when the European Commission issued the latest specification for this; and what consideration they have given to contingency plans to retain existing signalling if ETCS level 3 operation is delayed.


Answered by
Baroness Kramer Portrait
Baroness Kramer
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Treasury and Economy)
This question was answered on 9th March 2015

The current national deployment plan for ETCS is based upon Level 2 technology and not Level 3. The European specifications for ETCS Level 3 are not yet fully complete. We await timescales from the European Commission on when the specifications for ETCS Level 3 will become available.

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