Telecoms - Rail

In 1990 Optilan undertook our first fibre splicing and test works in a rail environment on the Docklands Light Railway.  By 1993 we had undertaken our first works on Network Rail, the commissioning of the London Tilbury Southend (LTS) Resignalling Project followed in 1994 by the Barnes Area Resignalling Project. 

Over the last decade our Light Rail, Mainline Rail and London Underground pedigree for cabling works has enjoyed exponential growth and no more so than over the last five years during which time we have formed a Rail Sales and Delivery Division to provide all aspects of cabling and transmission systems for the Rail Industry.

The Rail environment is a demanding one, it has strict health and safety protocols for both individuals and the employing company alike, the H&S focus is coupled with some equally demanding quality and technical standards that ensure long equipment and systems life cycles in a harsh environment from Vibration, EMC and the weather.

Our Rail division was established to embrace these challenges.

Optilan’s expertise extends through complete telecoms systems transmission designs and supply though station systems including CCTV, PA, Help points, Phones, Ethernet Networks and ANPR for station car parks and approach roads and trackside systems such as fibre optic and copper cabling backbone JTT commissioning and the telecoms aspects of Concentrator projects.

Examples of our experience:

Network Rail

We are a highly respected contractor for Network Rail D&D 005 Fixed Telecom Network Specification understanding and compliance for JTT activities.

London Underground

The UK’s largest direct salaried field force of LUL qualified fibre commissioning and test engineers and the house skills to plan and set them to work 24/7.  Optilan have commissioned a substantial element of the complex Connect project on LUL.

Light Rail

Docklands Light Rail, Tyne & Wear Metro, Nottingham Metro, Birmingham Metro,  Metro de Porto, Hong Kong Lantau Airport and Hamburg are just some of the networks with Optilan supplied transmission systems and/or fibre backbones.