Ansaldo STS awarded EUR 82 million contract to implement High Speed/High Capacity Treviglio – Brescia railway line

Ansaldo STS (STS.MI), a Finmeccanica Company, in quality of consortium partner of Consorzio Saturno, has received by the Italian Railway Network (RFI) the assignment to carry out part of the technological works on the High-Speed / High-Capacity railway line under construction, between the stations of Treviglio and Brescia.

The total amount of the works entrusted to Ansaldo STS equals EUR 82 million, on a total of EUR 176 million for the Consorzio.

Among the works entrusted to the Consorzio, Ansaldo STS has the duty of designing, building, installing and putting into service the signalling (level 2 ERTMS/ETCS and Multi-station) and automation installations (High-Speed SCC) on a 57-km-long railway line.

Furthermore, Ansaldo STS is directly responsible for designing, building, installing and putting into service the electrical substations, parallel positions and some data management installations for the electrical traction and for air-conditioning. Finally, they’ll take care of the air-conditioning, ventilation and heating installations for the new technological buildings.

After recently winning the tender for the Brescia Central station’s computer-based interlocking system (ACC), Ansaldo STS will carry out, through this contract, all the main works entrusted by the Italian Railway Network in the area of the railway reorganisation on the Turin-Padua main transversal railway line, which is part of the D interoperable corridor, defined as a priority by the European Community.