Canada’s Metrolinx Awards Siemens Mobility Rail Service Contract
The partnership builds upon Siemens Mobility's existing maintenance services in the West Region and signal and communications services at the Metrolinx Network Operations Center.
By using its digital tools and software, Siemens Mobility will provide Metrolinx with rail infrastructure performance data, ensuring highest availability, according to the company.
Photo: Metrolinx
Metrolinx chose Siemens Mobility to handle their track, signal, and right-of-way maintenance for the Central Region of Toronto's passenger railway infrastructure system.
The partnership builds upon Siemens Mobility's existing maintenance services in the West Region and signal and communications services at the Metrolinx Network Operations Center.
The Siemens, Metrolink Partnership
Siemens Mobility brings a local team of experts and over 25 years of experience in rail infrastructure maintenance across North America.
In addition, by using its digital tools and software, it will provide Metrolinx with rail infrastructure performance data, ensuring highest availability, according to the company.
In Canada, Siemens Mobility has been providing solutions to the transportation industry for more than 40 years, including, among others, railway infrastructure maintenance services on the rail networks in Quebec and Ontario, light rail vehicles in Edmonton and Calgary, trainsets delivered to VIA Rail Canada, new trainsets for Ontario Northland, an order for locomotives for Montreal’s exo, and the rail electrification and overall system maintenance of the light rail transit network in Kitchener-Waterloo.
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