Railway transport system hauls huge commodities and passengers from one location to another.rnThereby, protection of the freight, passenger and the train itself from collisions and hazards is thernpillar of railway system. There have been plenty of methods created to solve train protection problemrnall over the world so far. This thesis is also focused on solving protection problem in the route fromrnAddis Ababa to Djibouti border (Dewele).rnAddis Ababa-Djibouti route has both single and double tracks, serves to both freight and passengerrntrains. Moving Trains at this track have different speeds, passenger trains are relatively run at highrnspeed. Another problem within this track is head-on conflict of outward and inward running trains atrnthe single track. This situation needs an effective train control and protection system in order tornprotect train collision, increase route capacity and supply proper power distribution.rnThis thesis deals with designing proper, efficient and cost effective GSM-R radio coverage networkrnfor automatic train protection (ATP) system. Train detection mechanism is within GPS system. Thisrnwork inspected the geographical and morphological nature of Addis Ababa-Djibouti (Dewele) routernin detail.rnIn this thesis the appropriate radio coverage is done depending on the real geographical nature of thernroute. The data rate load and dimension of each train, whole line and other communication servicesrnare calculated. This thesis has been using an appropriate path loss model to estimate the link budgetrnof the network. The appropriate path loss model is selected with MATLAB software simulation.rnGSM-R radio network design parameters and appropriate algorithms are selected. Requiredrnmathematical calculations and analysis are defined on this thesis work. Then, lastly the networkrnoptimized with Atoll software.