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Safer, quicker and sustainable cable protection
As the world, and the railway, goes more and more digital,
the big growth industry seems to have been in the production of...
Sustainability and Decarbonisation: What are transformer losses?
Guest writer: Neville HaideIt is a good question, and one that needs to be answered and
better understood by...
Anglia OLE renewals: success through collaboration
Guest writer: Caroline BacherSince 2007, Network Rail has steadily been replacing the overhead line equipment (OLE) on...
Tackling Electrification – The challenge for Wales & Borders
Guest writers: Graeme Brindle and Nathan SealyMuch has been discussed recently about the state of
electrification in...
Sicat joins Network Rail’s UK Master Series
Guest writer: Danny AisthorpeWith the need to electrify significant parts of Great Britain’s rail network to...
OLErt – Overhead Line and Pantograph Monitoring
In this digital age, railways are harvesting increasing
volumes of data (‘Big Data’) on the performance of their assets but converting
raw data into...
It’s the bits and pieces that make it all work
Take a look at a typical section of overhead line equipment (OLE) and you will see a mass of wires, masts and...
Electrifying Innovation: The need for electrification
Guest writer: Steve CoxThe UK has a clear target to reach net zero emissions by
2050. Rail is already...
Better by design
Major projects, new trains, bewildering technology: these
are the big-ticket items that command everyone’s attention these days. And why
wouldn’t they? Who cares about...
Achieving net-zero
The 2008 Climate Change Act was the first in the world to make a government legally accountable for delivering its greenhouse gas...
Bringing more power to Merseyrail
Merseyrail will be introducing new trains to its network
around the Liverpool City Region from next year, replacing the current fleet of
electric multiple...
Rail Electrification: Rebuilding Confidence
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers recently held the
latest in a series of roughly biennial seminars highlighting railway
electrification, with the emphasis being mainly...
Manchester to Preston now tested for 100mph running
High-speed testing has now been
completed on the Manchester to Preston route, which was recently electrified,
so that the line speed can be increased...
An orange Christmas: Network Rail’s works over the 2018 Christmas holiday
As usual,
Network Rail took advantage of the Christmas and New Year holiday to undertake
some of the lengthier and more onerous projects that...
Electrification renewals at Forest Gate over Christmas 2018
The London
and North Eastern Railway started to electrify the Shenfield to Liverpool
Street line during the 1930s; civil engineering work had started before...
Improving safety for trackside installations
Across the UK, the rail network supports over 4.6 million passenger journeys a day and over 20,000 miles of track. As numbers grow year-on-year,...
