ROYAL REOPENING OF READING STATION IN GREAT BRITAIN

CITEF developed the visual environment of the area around Reading station in the United Kingdom. This visual system was integrated in a driving simulator to validate the new signalling installed around the station. It has been completely updated to handle the large number of rail connections in Reading.

Currently used by almost 20 million passengers a year, Reading station is on the Great Western Main Line (GWML), to the west of Paddington. It is one of the main hubs in the UK railway network, but it is often a bottleneck for rail traffic. A new signalling and traffic management system was needed to optimise train traffic, solve conflicts and decrease the bottleneck situations that inevitably occurred at this station. It was also refurbished and expanded to cope with passenger demand and the trains passing through it. Queen Elizabeth II reopened the station on 17 July 2014 once the improvement and adaptation works were complete.

Works will continue during the next year to complete a new viaduct to the west of the station to reduce the number of train movements.

More information: Rail Journal