10 years of Frauscher UK

The oldest railway network in the world (over 16,500 km long) has always been an interesting market for Frauscher. We are now going to take a look back on the history of Frauscher UK and its development and growth over the past decade.

Frauscher was already making a name for itself in Great Britain, even before the location in UK was established. Collaborating with the Westinghouse Company, Frauscher was involved in the Position Detection Project for the London Underground. 
However, the actual incentive for the establishment of the location in the UK came from another project. ‘Westinghouse’ (later Invensys) was looking for an axle counting system that was suitable for Modular Signalling. 

In 2009, after productive discussions with Siemens, the idea for the development of the Frauscher Advanced Counter FAdC was born at Frauscher in St. Marienkirchen near Schärding. After the first successful prototypes had already been built, Frauscher considered what conditions needed to be applied to receive an approval for the English market. This became the foundation of Frauscher UK. Throughout the course of this development, the FAdC approval was granted by Network Rail.

For Frauscher the UK is a stable and growing market. This can be seen from the turnover and the number of projects, which have increased steadily in recent years. In addition to England, Scotland and Wales, we are also represented in Ireland by an important sales partner. In order to further strengthen our market position, we will focus on the digitalisation of the railway in future.

Frauscher knows from experience that the market in Great Britain demands future-oriented solutions while maintaining high security standards. The combination of our RSR123 wheel sensor, which is highly resistant to electromagnetic interference, and the FAdC axle counting system are very popular. These offer significant advantages over the outdated track circuit technology. In addition, we are convinced that we will be able to offer even more customised solutions such as Counting Head Control CHC, Supervisor Track Section STS, Frauscher Safe Ethernet FSE protocol FSE and Remote Monitoring Display RMD in future.