Australia Transport NSW is installing a Digital Train Radio System (DTRS) throughout the electrified rail network, including 66 tunnels covering , bounded by
Kiama,
Macarthur,
Lithgow,
Bondi Junction and
Newcastle with GSM-R to replace the existing analogue MetroNet train radio. The replacement will fulfil recommendations from the Special Commission of Inquiry into the
Waterfall rail accident to provide a common platform of communication for staff working on the railway. The equipment will be installed at about 250 locations and more than 60 sites in tunnels. The old analogue network was dismantled in 2020.
Public Transport Victoria has installed a Digital Train Radio System (DTRS) on the
Melbourne train network with GSM-R to replace the old system called Urban Train Radio System (UTRS). The equipment was installed at about 100 locations. It cost $152 million., linking Paris to Germany and Switzerland
France at
Gare de l'Est in Paris In France, the first commercial railway route opened with full GSM-R coverage is the
LGV Est européenne linking Paris
Gare de l'Est to
Strasbourg. It was opened on 10 June 2007. • On Sunday, 10 June 2007 at 06:43, the first high speed train to run on it was the
ICE, the
high speed train from the German passenger operator:
Deutsche Bahn. It linked the ''Gare de l'Est'' in Paris to
Saarbrücken (Germany). • On the same day, at 07:15, it was the opportunity of the
TGV POS, the latest generation high speed train from the French operator,
SNCF. It linked
Strasbourg to Paris (Gare de l'Est).
Italy As of 2008, in Italy more than of railway lines are served by the GSM-R infrastructure: this number includes both ordinary and high speed lines, as well as more than of tunnels. Roaming agreements with other Italian mobile operators allow coverage of lines not directly served by GSM-R. Roaming agreements have also been set up with French and Swiss railway companies and it is planned to extend them to other countries.
Netherlands In the Netherlands, there is coverage on all the lines and the old system called
Telerail was abandoned in favour of GSM-R in 2006.
Norway In Norway, the GSM-R network was opened on all lines on 1 January 2007, replacing the older
Scanet network. Currently, Jan Erik Grytdal and his team are tasked to operate and maintain the network that covers the whole 4200 km long Norwegian railway network. He is supported by Jon Greger Madsen, Goran Lazic and Shelley Zhou for the core network while Øyvind Risan is the radio man. Einar Mogstad, Morten Helle, Frederik Norberg and Ameen Chilwan are the network planners. Additionally, he is leading a dynamic team of highly qualified professionals; Stein Svaet, Geir Olav Lauritzen and Tore Øwre who are actively working towards migrating from GSM-R technology to the new
5G-based technology called
FRMCS. The services provided by the team are managed by Rune Nordgård, Tina Brækken and Gro Sjåland while Amalie Forfod controls finances. Since 17% of the railway network in Norway is in the tunnels, GSM-R also covers the tunnels. In Norway most tunnels have repeater solutions, and Thomas Hirsch and Morten Bakkeli are the people in charge for them.
United Kingdom Sprinter DMU The implementation of over of GSM-R enabled railway, intended to replace both its legacy VHF 205 MHz National Radio Network (NRN) and UHF 450 MHz suburban
Cab Secure Radio (CSR) systems is now complete as of January 2016. • By October 2013, both the
West Coast Main Line (WCML) and
East Coast Main Line (ECML) to Scotland were covered by GSM-R and UK train operator
Northern Rail had implemented GSM-R on a significant number of routes in North and North-West of England. • In spring 2013, the
Association of Train Operating Companies' website
GSM-R Online announced that the implementation of the Southern half of the UK GSM-R system was complete as the final CA15 section had gone live (The UK GSM-R Project implementation divided the Mainland North and South of a map-line running from the Severn in the West to the Wash on the East coast). Infrastructure and installation work continued North of this division. Britain's GSM-R network was originally expected to be fully operational by 2013, but due to slippage in equipment fitting a later date became more likely. However, a
Rail Safety & Standards Board document indicated that the UK's Telecommunications Regulator, Ofcom, was to withdraw the existing NRN 205 MHz frequencies by 2015. Britain's GSM-R network's cost was originally put at £1.2 billion. That cost though did not include the WCML. • The
Cambrian Line ERTMS –
Pwllheli to
Harlech Rehearsal commenced on 13 February 2010 and successfully finished on 18 February 2010. The driver familiarisation and practical handling stage of the Rehearsal had provided an excellent opportunity to monitor the use of GSM-R voice in operation on this route. The first train departed Pwllheli at 08:53hrs in ERTMS Level 2 Operation with GSM-R voice being used as the only means of communication between the driver and the signaller. •
Network Rail fitted out a test train at
Derby it purchased for RSV testing of the GSM-R network. The train was formed from ex Gatwick Express stock. At a cost of £5.9 million, this custom-built machine known as the RSV (Radio Signal Verification) train started monitoring the Newport Synergy scheme and the
Cambrian Line. • On 2 September 2009, the
Rugby to
Stoke section went live. • The first train (
Virgin Trains West Coast 390034 on the 09:15
Manchester Piccadilly service to
London Euston) to use GSM-R on the south end of the WCML ran on 27 May 2009. This was the first vehicle to run in passenger service with GSM-R outside of the Strathclyde trial. • A fully functional GSM-R system had been on trial on the
North Clyde Line in Scotland since 2007. For some years before these trials commenced however, GSM-R had been in use for voice-only purposes – known as the 'Interim Voice Radio System' (IVRS) – in some locations where
axle counters are used for train detection, for example parts of the WCML between
Crewe and
Wembley. , the only areas of UK Network Rail still currently employing VHF train radio communications are on sections of the
Highland and
Far North lines in Scotland, where the
Radio Electronic Token Block system is utilised, using modified Ofcom frequencies around 180 MHz, having been de-scoped from the National GSM-R plan, due to practical difficulties involved in deploying the GSM-R system in this region. Currently, 100% of the UK network has GSM-R coverage. == Gallery ==