Environment | Rail Engineer

Irish Rail helping Ireland to reduce carbon footprint

Company News 5th June 2020

Over 50 of the largest companies in Ireland are signatories to Business in the Community Ireland’s Low Carbon Pledge.

Embankment stabilisation continues in the Derbyshire Peak District

Environment 23rd April 2020

Engineers from Network Rail are upgrading the railway embankment to improve future journeys on the line between Manchester and Buxton by protecting...

New technology helmets improve safety and aid social distancing

Company News 20th April 2020

Ground Control – one of the leading suppliers of vegetation control services to Network Rail, has deployed ‘game changing’ high-tech safety helmets...

Zero Carbon? Not here! Carbon-fibre bogie frame

Depot 3rd April 2020

During the IMechE’s Railway Challenge in 2019, the judges were hugely impressed with the composite bogie and springs demonstrated on the Poznan...

Editorial: Getting net zero done

Environment 13th March 2020

The UN Climate Change Conference, to be held in Glasgow in November, will be attended by over 30,000 delegates and 200 heads...

From awkward to straightforward

Environment 13th March 2020

Rhomberg Sersa’s in-line excavator comes out of the mines to sort out the Railway’s ‘difficult list’ Imagine, if you...

Innovating for Resilience

Environment 12th March 2020

Guest writer: Nick King, director of Network Services, Network Rail It’s a challenging time for everyone on the railway at...

Vegetation Management

Environment 31st January 2020

One of Network Rail’s most high-profile challenges is managing its lineside vegetation and achieving a fine balance between keeping the railway running...

EAD and CE marking of geohazard products

Advertising feature 25th January 2020

Experts from Swiss protection-system market leader Geobrugg explain the importance of CE marks, European Assurance Documents (EADs) and warns users of...

The quest for a cleaner railway

Electrification 6th November 2019

The UK’s railway is eliminating carbon. You must have noticed. The government has pledged to get all diesels off the railway by 2040 and...

First light: The Riding Sunbeams trial of solar-powered electric traction

Electrification 2nd October 2019

How many times have we looked at clever innovation and wondered why on earth no one thought of doing it before? Often the...

Zero-carbon: the need for innovative construction plant

Company News 1st October 2019

Guest writer: Simon Meades, Ecolite product manager at Taylor Construction Plant. With the announcement...

Rail decarbonisation – a letter to the Minister

Environment 30th August 2019

There are hundreds of All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPG) formed by MPs and Members of the House of Lords who share a common interest in a...

Achieving net-zero

Electrification 29th August 2019

The 2008 Climate Change Act was the first in the world to make a government legally accountable for delivering its greenhouse gas...

Moving Mud – Dealing with weather damage around the country

Environment 9th April 2019

Rail Engineer regularly publishes articles that show the railway is really very high-tech these days. In-cab signalling systems, digital traffic management, remote condition monitoring,...

Decarbonisation on the agenda at RIA’s innovation conference

Environment 5th April 2019

European Environmental Agency figures show that, per passenger kilometre, rail transport’s CO2 emissions are respectively 28 and 11 per cent of those on road and...