The widespread introduction and availability of modern internet protocol (IP) fixed and radio-based telecoms networks provide many benefits for a modern railway. These include...
Guest writer: Shelley Robertson, Comtest Wireless
Around
the world, rail organisations are working hard to increase capacity and operate
faster, safer trains more efficiently.
In the
UK,...
London Underground’s Northern line extension, which is being
built from Kennington to Battersea with a new intermediate station at Nine
Elms, uses Building Information Modelling (BIM)...
UNIFE, the Association of the European Rail Industry,
has released a new vision paper on digitalisation that aims to bring the
European rail supply industry’s views...
A common bearer (transport layer) telecoms network takes advantage
of the new digital technologies and ‘big data’ applications in order to provide
a safe, efficient, reliable...
The impending retirement of David Waboso, who currently
heads up the Digital Railway team in Network Rail, calls for comment on the man
who has made...
Stuart Calvert, director of
programme technical services and supply chain at Network Rail’s Group Digital
Railway (GDR), has been announced as its new managing director following...
Following on from the successful, world-first deployment of Automatic Train Operation (ATO) with the European Train Control System (ETCS) on the mainline railway in...
Digital affects almost every facet of UK rail activity. It has been transforming rolling stock, maintenance, and passengers’ journeys for almost a decade. Industry...
On 10 May 2018, the Secretary of State for Transport, Chris Grayling, and Mark Carne, chief executive Network Rail, supported by David Waboso, managing...
It’s easy to be cynical about the Digital Railway. For a start, the technology and the terminology are difficult for the uninitiated to understand.
As...
The recent White Paper “Making a Success of the Digital Railway”, published by the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE) and the subject of...
