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Rail safety project launched by South Western Railway in partnership with UK Youth
South Western Railway has invested £40,000 in a partnership with UK Youth to help educate young people on the risks of trespass, vandalism and level crossing misuse The project targets [...]
Final week to register for HS2’s biggest ever supply chain event
Image credits: HS2 With just two weeks to go until its biggest ever ‘Meet the Contractor’ event launches, High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd is making a final call for UK [...]
Net zero trains commitment can power a green jobs revolution, says rail industry
Image credits: Rail Delivery Group New research shows how building a net zero railway could support 6,000 green jobs lasting to 2050, generate £4.4 billion of economic benefits and catalyse [...]
Delivery of HS2’s next phase to Crewe gathers pace as Phase 2a Design and Delivery Partner shortlisted
Image credits: HS2 HS2 Ltd today shortlisted bidders to become the Phase 2a Design and Delivery Partner (DDP) for the new section of Britain’s high speed rail network, connecting the [...]
Autumn public consultation opens for Ely rail capacity increase
Image credits: Network Rail Network Rail is inviting the public to comment on proposals and options for the next part of the wider public consultation to increase rail capacity through [...]
North hosts national launch of week-long ‘Go Green by Train’ campaign
Image credits: Transport for the North Transport for the North’s (TfN) Chief Executive, Martin Tugwell, welcomed the Community Rail Network to Manchester Piccadilly today for the launch of its inaugural [...]
Inside track on power for railways
Image credits: Relec Electronics Rail transport is in the news and in the latest That Engineering Chat podcast, Relec’s John Stone talks about power design for inside and outside rail [...]
Lucy Prior MBE takes up exciting new role with Trough-Tec Systems
Accomplished rail industry executive, Lucy Prior MBE, has joined sustainable cable management supplier, Trough-Tec Systems (TTS) as its Business Growth Director. Building on her 17 years’ experience in business development [...]
RIA: The UK is electrifying its railway at less than half the rate needed to decarbonise by 2050
Image credits: Rail Industry Association New data has been published from the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) showing that the UK is not electrifying its railways quick enough to [...]
Hitachi Rail awarded contract to design digital signalling solution to improve reliability and safety for Gloucester area
Image credits: Hitachi Hitachi Rail and Linbrooke enter into exclusive design stage with Network Rail to develop signalling solution for Gloucester area. New and innovative Hitachi Rail digital signalling technology [...]
To truly ‘build back better’ and ‘level up’ the North we need HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail in full
Responding to reports that the Integrated Rail Plan will be “bad news” for the North of England, Cllr Louise Gittins, Interim Chair of Transport for the North (TfN), said: “These [...]
Major engineering work in November and December to provide better journeys for rail passengers in Weymouth, Dorchester and Yeovil
Image credits: Network Rail Passengers in Weymouth, Dorchester and Yeovil will soon benefit from big improvements to their railway as engineers get to work on improving track and stations. Between [...]
HS2 launches major new initiative to share project insight with the wider industry
HS2 Ltd today launched a major new initiative to share insight from Britain’s largest construction project with the wider UK infrastructure industry that will see the publication of lessons learnt, [...]
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Antennas: the key to enabling fast connectivity on trains
As society becomes increasingly connected and digitally driven, people travelling by train expect fast connectivity at their fingertips and enough [...]
The evolution of training
There is no better time to embrace the digitalisation of your industry and bring your business’s competency management online The [...]
Digital remedies for recruitment headaches
As we emerge from the pandemic, with a return to work whether a ‘normal’ or a hybrid version of it, [...]
Striking a balance at Bearsted
BAM Ritchies offers collaborative, digital, integrated, value driven ground and geotechnical engineering BAM Ritchies is the ground engineering division of [...]
Kurt Zeidler, Principal at GALL ZEIDLER Consultants
Sam Sherwood-Hale spoke to Kurt Zeidler, Principal at GALL ZEIDLER Consultants about his career, the history and development of tunnelling [...]
Seeing rail in another dimension
Ten years ago, Agility3 turned a 3D vision into a digital reality It brought the latest modelling and simulation technologies [...]