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CFL new interlockings ETCS Level 1 Bettembourg Dudelange
CFL — new interlockings with central ETCS Level 1 Full Supervision for Bettembourg and Dudelange: awarded to Hitachi Rail GTS Deutschland
Awarded to Hitachi Rail — CFL — Direction Gestion Infrastructure now holds 1 position with this supplier.
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- Buyer
- CFL — Direction Gestion Infrastructure
- Where
- Luxembourg · Bettembourg
- Segments
- Signalling, Digital operations
- Technology areas
- Signalling & train control, Cybersecurity
- Status
- Awarded — Contract-award notice 702761-2024 of November 2024; negotiated procedure with prior call; contract concluded October 2024.
- Value band
- $25–100m
- Currency
- EUR
- Key dates (month)
- Published November 2024 · Contract concluded October 2024
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Contract-award notice 702761-2024 of November 2024; negotiated procedure with prior call; contract concluded October 2024. The largest single rail contract in the Luxembourg record read for this file.
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Recorded award: Hitachi Rail — Hitachi Rail GTS Deutschland holds CFL's contract of 15 October 2024 for integrated interlockings with central ETCS Level 1 Full Supervision at Bettembourg and Dudelange — the largest single rail contract in the Luxembourg record read for this file, and one held by a foreign prime with no Luxembourg partner named
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- ● TED notice 702761-2024 · Contract-award notice, CFL, 'Erneuerung der Stellwerke im Bahnhof Bettembourg'. Negotiated with prior call. total-value and BT-161-NoticeResult 53,521,280; winner-name and organisation-name-tenderer both 'Hitachi Rail GTS Deutschland'; winner-selection-status selec-w; LOT-0001; contract concluded 15 October 2024; internal reference 2402561. Lot description: 'Systementwicklung, Projektierung, Lieferung, Montage und Inbetriebnahme von integrierten Stellwerken mit zentralem ETCS Level 1 Full Supervision und vereinfachter Aussensignalisierung zur Neuausruestung der Bahnhoefe Bettembourg und Dudelange des luxemburgischen Eisenbahnnetzes, sowie Umbauten und der Lieferung und Reparatur von Ersatzteilen.' No subcontractor named (published 2024-11-18 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● CFL Group — projet Gare Bettembourg : les suites · CFL's own forthcoming-projects page. 'Avec la mise en service de la nouvelle ligne Luxembourg - Bettembourg en septembre 2027, la circulation des trains des lignes Luxembourg Esch/Alzette - Rodange et Luxembourg - Thionville - Metz se fera de maniere independante avec deux voies dediees par ligne.' Control of the new line's infrastructure will initially be exercised from the Luxembourg signalling centre 'en attendant qu'un nouveau poste directeur de derniere generation soit installe a partir de 2029', replacing the present one dating from the 1980s, whose technology can no longer take additional control elements for new rail projects. From 2029 the new signalling centre will let CFL make full use of the new track installations north of Bettembourg station, and the Bettembourg interchange is then to be remodelled, including the construction of a new flyover (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● CFL Group — projet European Train Control System (ETCS) · CFL's own project page, project start 2003, project end 2017, locality 'Tout le reseau': 'Depuis le 20 juillet 2017, l'entierete du reseau ferre luxembourgeois est equipee du systeme europeen de controle de trains ETCS niveau 1, autorise par l'Administration des Chemins de Fer.' The page describes the trackside balises and the on-board computer and DMI, and states 'La realisation du systeme ETCS sur le reseau ferre luxembourgeois a ete cofinancee par l'Union Europeenne' without naming a programme or a figure (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Network Statement 2027 (DRR 2027), Administration des chemins de fer · 220-page English network statement, version 1.0 of 19 September 2025 (Appendix 2A dated 22 September 2025), published by the ACF and downloaded as a 7.33 MB PDF, HTTP 200, on 14 September 2026. Section 1.1: 'In accordance with the modified law of 6 June 2019 relating to the management, access, and use of the railway infrastructure and the regulation of the railway market, the Railway Administration ACF exercises the functions of the pricing body and capacity allocation of the national rail infrastructure. The National Railway infrastructure is managed for the state of Luxembourg by the Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois ... in accordance with the Grand Duchy regulation of 6 November 2009 about the management contract of the railway infrastructure's approval and the collective convention on the building management dependent on the railway infrastructure signed on 7th May 2009 between the State and the Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois. The CFL, as an infrastructure manager, is therefore, among other things, responsible for traffic regulations.' Section 1.3.3: 'The function of the independent national regulatory body for the railway sector will be fulfilled by l'Institut Luxembourgeois de Regulation (ILR).' Section 2.3.1 track typologies: single track 100.319 km, double track 160.327 km, multiple tracks 0 km. Section 2.3.2: 'The entire national rail network is standard gauge, e=1435mm.' Section 2.3.5: all lines category D4, 22.5 t per axle and 8.0 t per metre. Section 2.3.8: passenger trains at most 16 vehicles, 64 axles, 800 tonnes and 430 m; freight trains never above 850 m. Section 2.3.12: 'CFL commissioned the GSM-R digital mobile radio network on December 9, 2018.' Section 5.3.2.2: the unit charge directly attributable to operating a train path is EUR 2.771 per train-km for 2026 against EUR 2.651 for 2025, all prices excluding VAT; section 5.3.2.3 states 'Lines declared to be saturated: none'. Section 7.2 lists the service-facility categories and points to the Rail Facilities Portal. Appendix 2A carries a data sheet per line for twenty lines (1, 1a, 1b, 2b, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 6e, 6f, 6g, 6h, 6j, 6k, 7, 8); nineteen of them give the speed control system as ETCS L1 (line 4 is written 'ETCS Level 1'), and line 6e Esch/Alzette-Audun-le-Tiche, 2.7 km of single track limited to 40 km/h, gives it as ETCS L0. Nineteen lines are electrified at 25 kV or 2x25 kV AC 50 Hz; line 2b Ettelbruck-Bissen, 8.7 km of single track, gives Traction Energy 'System none'. Published contact desks: ACF Division Sillons Guichet Unique, 1 Porte de France, L-4360 Esch-sur-Alzette, +352 261912 23, oss@acf.etat.lu; ACF Division Interoperabilite et Securite, +352 261912 35 or 33, vehicle-authorisation@acf.etat.lu; ACF Division Interoperabilite et Securite ferroviaire, +352 261912 27, certification@acf.etat.lu; network-statement enquiries projets.europe@acf.etat.lu; ILR Service Ferroviaire, 17 rue du Fosse, L-1536 Luxembourg, +352 28 228 228, fax +352 28 228 229, ferroviaire@ilr.lu; licensing information at Ministere de la Mobilite et des Travaux publics, Departement des transports, L-2938 Luxembourg, +352 247-84400, info@mt.public.lu; CFL Direction Gestion Infrastructure, B.P. 1803, L-1018 Luxembourg, +352 2489 4512, GI.Courrier@cfl.lu; CFL Direction Gestion Infrastructure Division Planification Exploitation GI-PE4, +352 2489 5464, gi.ate@cfl.lu; CFL Service Exploitation Infrastructure Supervision Trafic, 16 route de Thionville, L-2610 Luxembourg, +352 2489 3335, ei.supervisiontrafic@cfl.lu; CFL terminals s.a., Terminal Intermodal, Z.A.E. Wolser E, L-3474 Dudelange, +352 4996 0108, access@cfl-terminals.lu and info@cfl-terminals.lu; Societe du Port de Mertert S.A., L-6688 Mertert, +352 74 04 64, info@portmertert.lu. Section 1.7 records that the national network is part of the North Sea-Rhine-Mediterranean rail freight corridor and that the ACF is a member of RailNetEurope (published 2025-09-19 · checked 2026-09-14)
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