Industryweek 7809 Thales Siemens Tapped Spain High Speed Train Safety Systems

Thales, Siemens Tapped for Spain High-Speed Train Safety Systems

Nov. 24, 2014
Thales and Siemens have won a contract worth more than 500 million euros to revamp safety systems on a high-speed train line in Spain.

PARIS -- The French and German industrial giants Thales (IW 1000/240) and Siemens (IW 1000/35) said Monday they had won a contract worth more than 500 million euros to revamp safety systems on a high-speed train line in Spain.

"The order has a total value of around 510 million euros [$633 million] for the consortium," the companies said in a joint statement.

The two companies will modernize the control, signaling and safety equipment on the roughly 340-kilometer (211-mile) section of the high-speed line between Olmedo and Ourense in northern Spain.

The consortium is 55% owned by Thales with the remaining 45% held by Siemens.

A high-speed derailment on another section of this high-speed line in July 2013 caused 79 deaths on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Santiago de Compostela, Spain's deadliest train accident since 1944.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2014

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