In 2005 the overhead line equipment (OLE) engineering team from Siemens Rail Electrification designed a replacement for the life-expired OLE equipment on the six...
With investment in the UK rail network growing but under continued scrutiny to ensure maximum efficiency is achieved, it is essential that the supply...
Gospel Oak-Barking was one of London’s forgotten railways, neglected and unreliable. Its trains were among the oldest on the network and were often lightly...
Electrification has received some negative press coverage over recent times, with delays to major projects and significant cost overruns being widely reported. Why should...
Although listed in the 1963 Beeching report as “All passenger services to be withdrawn”, the fourteen mile Gospel Oak to Barking (GOB) route, hitherto something of...
The rail industry is, like many sectors, continually looking for more efficient, effective and commercially viable ways of operating. As a result, a process...
As regular readers will be aware, the Great Western railway is slowly but surely shedding its rather tired mid-twentieth-century image. It is beginning to...
The Whifflet line. A Cinderella railway dependant on DMU rolling stock despite being surrounded by electrified railways.
The advantages of electrification - a cleaner, faster, quieter...
Network Rail recently held a National Electrification Conference at its Westwood facility just outside Coventry. The event gave an interested group of engineers and...
