Signalling Solutions secures £21m deal
Signalling Solutions (SSL), which has sites in Birmingham, Beeston and Derby, has been awarded a contract worth about £21m by Network Rail. The company is a joint venture between Alstom Transport and infrastructure services giant Balfour Beatty.
SSL offers turn-key solutions to the rail industry.
The pilot project, for which SSL set up a demonstration and testing scheme at their site in Beeston, is designed to trial a new approach to re-signalling on railways, based on modular techniques.
The modular signalling concept was launched by Network Rail to develop "low-cost, efficient and easy-to-install technology" that can be used to resignal low-density, rural routes for UK railway lines.
The first railway line to be re-signalled using the new technology, will be the 53-mile long Norwich to Ely route.
Signalling Solutions employs 333 people in the UK. Almost half of these employees are located in the Midlands; 37 at Beeston, 40 in Birmingham and 88 in Derby.
Final commissioning for the project is currently scheduled for completion in July 2012.
