Imagine a future in which the only limit is your imagination. A future brimming with hope, excellence, quality and efficiency — a place where a child can dream freely, without an adult clipping their wings. It is from such a future that we bring you Tourmaline.

Tourmaline is an intelligent environment designed to process the vast stream of information generated during even the simplest train journey, offering everyone involved — passengers and crew alike — a fresh and profound perspective on what is unfolding around them.

The finest way to grasp the concept is simply to let yourself be carried away by it. Picture an ordinary day: you board a train, take your seat by the window, and settle in to enjoy the passing landscape. When a wall or tunnel briefly obstructs your view, your gaze drifts upward to the screen in front of you. There, you see your own train from the outside — not a recording, nor drone footage, but a photorealistic synthetic recreation. Your train moves through a digital twin of the very same line, revealing everything around you from a majestic bird’s-eye view.

The illusion is so convincing that you soon lose interest in the real window. After all, glass cannot tell you the name of the approaching station, the current temperature, your speed, or how long remains until the next stop.

Tourmaline ingeniously condenses the entire flow of railway information into a single, soulful graphical representation. It fuses the driver’s cab console, passenger screens, speakers, information displays and surveillance cameras into one coherent entity. Its mission is to deliver the richest possible context, not through an overwhelming sea of disconnected data, but through clear, intuitive models that mirror reality. For, as the proverb says, a picture is worth a thousand words.

This is Tourmaline: a visionary system that does not yet exist in today’s world. And perhaps only a child, with a mind unburdened by convention, can fully understand that if a train had a soul, Tourmaline would be precisely that.