Network Rail to upgrade train monitoring system

Transport firm publishes contract notice for prospective vendors

Network Rail is revamping its train monitoring system as part of its IT transformation

Network Rail is seeking to upgrade its train monitoring system as part of its IT transformation project.

The firm has served a contract notice for the improvement of its infrastructure monitoring a fleet of trains. It is also looking to revamp the measurement equipment on these and other fleet vehicles.

Measurement types covered by the equipment include drivers-view image capture, internal rail defects, rail surface cracks and video track inspection.

The contract may include the supply, support and enhancement of hardware and software, as well as installation and training. Responses from prospective vendors should be submitted by 31 March.

Last year, corporate development director Catherine Doran told Computing that a key project for Network Rail during 2010 would be the introduction of video-based inspection and asset monitoring.

At the time, Doran said the firm was looking at developing software that will enable it to compare video footage and look for discrepancies over different periods of time.