East Coast Digital Programme

🎄Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from ECDP!🎄

📰 Check out the first installment in our 'A Day With...' series, featuring the Class 80x Fitment Team. London North Eastern Railway Hull Trains Lumo TransPennine Express #DigitalSignalling #ECDP #IndustryPartnership

🎉 We’ve Hit 4,000 Followers! 🎉 We are thrilled to announce that the East Coast Digital Programme has reached 4,000 LinkedIn followers! 🚀   A huge thank you to all our followers for your support, engagement, and enthusiasm.   Follow for more exciting updates and developments as we continue our journey to deliver the next generation railway!   #ECDP #IndustryPartnership #DigitalSignalling #ETCS

⭐ Fantastic to celebrate another successful year on the #EastCoastDigitalProgramme and to have recognised the contributions of so many across our industry partnership in our 2024 Recognition Awards at today's Programme Event. Congratulations to all our winners of the following awards: Tenacious: The Class 66 RIDC Testing Partners Caring: Sue Perez and Robert Humber Inclusive: Resolute Network - Akalia Maclaurin and Cara Cohen Pioneering Leader: Darren Jones Pioneering Team: The Welwyn to Hitchin Project Team and The Freightliner FiC Fitment Team Plan Safe, Work Safe, Be Safe: The Welwyn to Hitchin Exclusion Zone Testing Team See It, Say It, Implement It: The Freight POD Rising Star: Vanessa Wragg and Daniel Guy Enduring Commitment: Graham Lawrence Congratulations also to those who were Highly Commended - you know who you are. We are looking forward to greater success in 2025 as we continue to deliver this pioneering programme. #ETCS #ECDP #IndustryPartnership #DigitalSignalling

The weekend saw another round of successful testing completed for East Coast Digital Programme. Around 30 successful round trips completed between Welwyn to Hitchin, thanks to the efforts of colleagues from GTR (Govia Thameslink Railway), Grand Central Rail, Network Rail Eastern Region and Siemens Mobility. The work moves the programme another step closer to European Train Control System (ETCS) being used for passenger and freight trains on the East Coast Main Line. More information here: https://gloo.to/Ftw7  

🚂 Classic ‘High Speed Train’ in main line digital signalling run The iconic High Speed Train (HST), a symbol of British rail heritage, has become the first older generation train to participate in main line digital signalling testing. Two Class 43 power cars, each fitted with #ETCS equipment on board, took part in testing between Welwyn Garden City and Hitchin. The testing demonstrated the collaboration involved with #ECDP. The on-board Hitachi Rail equipment was tested with the Siemens Mobility wayside system and involved testing engineers from both companies. The train was driven and operated by specialist European rail operator RailAdventure UK Ltd, with GTR (Govia Thameslink Railway), providing the test train officer. 📰 Full story here: https://lnkd.in/eipCT-5z #DigitalSignalling #IndustryPartnership #EastCoastDigitalProgramme

⚠️Major upgrade work affecting services this Saturday 30th November and Sunday 1st December⚠️ Passengers are reminded to check before they travel on the East Coast Main Line this weekend 30th November - 1st December, as further digital signalling testing is taking place as part of the £1.4bn East Coast Digital Programme. More information can be found here: https://lnkd.in/eCtSCDhN GTR (Govia Thameslink Railway) London North Eastern Railway Grand Central Rail Hull Trains Lumo Network Rail Eastern Region #DigitalSignalling #ECDP #ETCS

Hear London North Eastern Railway Managing Director David Horne speak about #ECDP's exciting testing and development work scheduled for later this month. #ETCS #DigitalSignalling #IndustryPartnership

🚄 Commuter trains now all controlled digitally on City of London route Another milestone for ECDP as ETCS is now controlling every single train that commuters catch on the GTR (Govia Thameslink Railway) route from Finsbury Park to Moorgate in the City of London. Ed Akers, Network Rail’s industry partnership director for #ECDP, said: “This is a great achievement on what will become the first commuter railway in the country to operate without any physical signals. I’d like to thank all the signallers, drivers, engineers and planners across our whole partnership who have worked hard to make the Northern City Line project a success". Check out the full article here: https://lnkd.in/e9NA72-z> #ETCS #DigitalSignalling #EastCoastDigitalProgramme #IndustryPartnership Network Rail Eastern Region

🎤 Great to have ECDP Transformation Director Caroline Crewther representing the programme at #TransCityRailNorth. Here's a snippet of the insight she had to share:   "Most other programmes have had varying degrees of success, but our one was so complex…looking at other programmes, we knew we had to set up East Coast very differently. We set it up purposely as a transformational change programme that was going to be enabled by technology"   #DigitalSignalling #ETCS #IndustryPartnership #ECDP