The great and good of the Rail Industry gathered at Birmingham’s NEC last night (Thursday 30 November) for the RailStaff Awards 2023. After another eventful 12 months for Rail, all were there to celebrate the outstanding efforts of the industry’s exemplary employees, who go above and beyond to keep the...

Wireless monitoring technology developer Senceive has revealed the latest in its range of IoT infrastructure condition monitoring devices. The Digital Interface Node allows users to integrate a wide range of geotechnical, structural and environmental sensors into a Senceive wireless communications platform in order to benefit from automated data logging...

The 2012 High Speed Rail White Paper noted that many nations have high speed rail lines, transforming their economies, and that not building such lines means Britain loses out while our global competitors gain. Doing nothing leaves UK rail networks over-burdened and risks lost business, lower growth, and fewer...

Following research by the Friends of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, which safeguards and promotes the heritage of the route, Heighington and Aycliffe Railway Station has been proven to have been in use since 1827 - 196 years ago. Until recently, Liverpool Road station in Manchester, dating from 1830,...

Cancelling HS2 phase 2 was a decision of huge magnitude. The full HS2 Y network from London to Manchester and Leeds was designed as a fully integrated system intended to maximise its capacity. Cutting this back to the line now being built has significant adverse consequences, some of which...

“The Government has clearly set out its firm focus on rebalancing the economy and creating jobs, skills and talent to raise the level of productivity across the UK. HS2 is essential to delivering these wider ambitions.” “This Government is clear that HS2’s great potential for the whole nation continues to...

Downing Street’s decision to scale back the scope of the HS2 has disturbed the industry and its suppliers, but the project had its fair share of detractors from the off, including those who’d welcome its scrapping on ecological grounds. It is true that HS2, like all infrastructure projects, comes...

Rail Engineer was recently invited to visit the impressive new Siemens Mobility train manufacturing ‘village’ facility at Goole, Yorkshire. Sustainability, environmental protection, biodiversity, social value, community support and engagement, all feature in the £200 million rail village. This was immediately apparent as we were met by a row of...

Whilst the Siemens Mobility Goole train manufacturing plant and supply chain rail village is still being finished, and no train building work is expected to commence until March 2024, one part is already up and running: its component overhaul business. With nearly 4,000 Siemens carriages in service or on...

Rail Engineer 175 (June 2019) ran a feature explaining how and why the future of Wi-Fi technology would be Wi-Fi 6 (IEEE 6802.11ax). But things move fast in telecoms development and, just four years later, the new kid on the block is Wi-Fi 7 (IEEE 802.11be). So why is...

Whenever an intervention involving working on or near to an active safety critical signalling item of equipment takes place, the safety integrity failure risk of the signalling system increases. This risk of failure must be managed by robust testing of the equipment before it is returned to service. Following...