UK’s one of the biggest Rail owns, operates and develops most of Great Britain’s railway network and infrastructure. It maintains 20,000+ miles of railway track, 30,000+ bridges, tunnels, viaducts and thousands of signals, level crossings and stations. NW also manages 20 of the UK’s largest railway stations, while the others (2,500+) are managed by the country’s other train operating companies.
Existing reservations system failing in multiple areas:
British rail industry membership body that brings together passenger and freight rail companies, wanted advanced reservation system without major investment to upgrade.
A new reservation system Sqills is to be introduced providing much needed functionality & resilience improvements.
MuleSoft will be implemented to abstract business logic from core systems and provide flexibility when integrating with TOC systems.