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The Barcelona Metropolitan Railway’s new Comprehensive Simulator for Driving, Breakdown Repair and Operation – SICRAO – was installed between October and December 2020 and is currently in use at TMB’s (Barcelona Metropolitan Transport) training centre at Hospital Clínic station. This represents a new and important step forward, following years of collaboration between TMB and CITEF […]
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The CEFF (Centro Europeo de Formación Ferroviaria) increases its already extensive practical simulation training capacity by incorporating new Simulators for Training Train Drivers in the ERTMS/ETCS system, installed in its headquarters back in June and developed by CITEF. This project positions CEFF as the first private training Centre in Spain to have an ERTMS/ETCS system […]
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The Rail Driver Training Simulator developed by CITEF, in line with the Spanish Railway Operation Regulation (RCF), was installed at the ALSA Railway Training Centre in Madrid at the beginning of October. The training system features the Driver Position, which recreates the cockpit of the Stadler Euro 4000 locomotive, and the Instructor Position, from where […]
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Since June, the Santiago Underground (Metro de Santiago) has a new simulator that was developed by CITEF and is located at San Eugenio Depot to train staff to operate the new ALSTOM NS-16 rolling stock. This new simulator reproduces the infrastructures of lines 2 and 5 and begun to work months before the start of […]
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The Crossrail Programme which will deliver the new Elizabeth line, is one of Europe’s biggest infrastructure projects at the present time and will deliver 26 miles of new rail tunnel under London along with ten new stations in Central and Southeast London. The line is due to open in phases from the end of 2018, […]
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A few months ago, we announced the meeting of the consortium for the Railway Maintenance Simulators project (Spanish acronym: SIMAFE) co-financed by MINECO through INNPACTO 2012 (IPT-2012-0225-370000) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). At the beginning of this year, as a result of collaboration among the companies in the consortium, the track ballast tamper […]
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