31 October 2006

Delivery Success for Colchester Signal Post Telephone System

STS Rail have announced the successful completion and on-time delivery of a major contract awarded by Network Rail and prime contractor telent Enterprise Services to renew the SPT telephone system in the Colchester and East Anglia region, on one of the busiest commuter and freight lines into London’s Liverpool Street station.

Colchester

The contract is part of Network Rail’s major investment programme and involves the replacement of the existing life-expired concentrators at Colchester PSB and remote sites at Manningtree, Ipswich, Stowmarket, Diss and Norfolk. The new networked system will have a capacity in excess of 650 trackside telephones and a Public Emergency Telephone system (PETS) at 20 level crossings covering a 60 mile route between Colchester and Norfolk.

Commenting on the contract award, Phil Tait, STS Rails’ General Manager, said: “We are delighted to have been awarded this contract and to be part of the significant investment being made by Network Rail South East Territory”.

All STS Rail systems are manufactured in England and provide a cost effective, genuine non-blocking concentrator solution that offers high reliability, quality and improved maintainability with full engineering support.