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Indra-Alstom to install tunnel security systems for Spanish high-speed rail link

A consortium of Indra and Alstom España has won the contract to install public safety and security systems in the six tunnels on the high-speed rail link connecting Antequera and Granada in Spain. The contract also includes system maintenance for a period of 42 months. Over 100 km long, the rail link represents a key infrastructure in the development of the Andalusian Crossrail Project and forms part of the Trans-European Transport Network as one of the priority networks for improving passenger and cargo
October 22, 2015 Read time: 1 min
A consortium of 509 Indra and 8158 Alstom España has won the contract to install public safety and security systems in the six tunnels on the high-speed rail link connecting Antequera and Granada in Spain. The contract also includes system maintenance for a period of 42 months.

Over 100 km long, the rail link represents a key infrastructure in the development of the Andalusian Crossrail Project and forms part of the Trans-European Transport Network as one of the priority networks for improving passenger and cargo transportation throughout the EU. It will link Madrid to Granada in less than three hours.

Indra and Alstom will supply public safety and security systems including emergency signalling and lighting, energy, communications, ventilation, fire detection, water supply and the vestibule pressurisation systems for the emergency exits.

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