Stadler has signed an agreement with Deutsche Bahn (DB) Netz to retrofit up to 80 maintenance and track service vehicles with its GUARDIA ETCS Baseline 3.6.0 train control system, after winning the Europe-wide tender.

This will increase the reliability, efficiency and safety of the vehicles, as the latest iteration of ETCS offers more operative functions.

The powerful and proven ETCS on-board system GUARDIA is already being used successfully in projects in over twelve countries

This is the first large scale implementation of the GUARDIA system on DB maintenance vehicles and only the second time any DB vehicle has been fitted with this solution.

During a pilot project, the GUARDIA system was fitted onto the DB Advanced Train Lab of the series BR 605 – exhibited at Innotrans 2022 – and two BR 185.2 locomotives.

Eight 711.1 and 741.X series maintenance and track service vehicles will be the first to be fitted with the system under the new contract. These will enter service across DB Netz’s German and Swiss networks from next year.

The contract then includes an option for the retrofit of up to another 72 vehicles.

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