Tame the dust

HSEQ Nigel Wordsworth BSc(Hons) MCIJ - 20th December 2018

Ballast dust continues to be a priority issue, with several high-profile campaigns such as ‘No Time to Lose’ and Network Rail’s Ballast Dust Working...

Improving safety for trackside installations

Electrification Nigel Wordsworth BSc(Hons) MCIJ - 20th December 2018

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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,...

HS2 scores sustainable with BREEAM

High Speed Rail Lesley Brown - 14th May 2018

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While not an obligation, it’s fundamental for us to have a third-party looking in at our sustainability process and practice.” This February, HS2 Ltd...

Rail Engineer February 2018: Yuletide Activities

HSEQ Andy Milne - 2nd February 2018

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Biodiversity at Bermondsey

HSEQ Andy Milne - 7th November 2017

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You can always tell a major construction site. There are acres of bare earth, often rutted and with stones sticking out of it, dirt...

Sustainability and the fallout from scrapped electrification plans

Business Andy Milne - 1st November 2017

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The fallout from the Government’s decision to scrap three major electrification projects, in Wales, the Midlands and the North, is inevitably a hot topic...

Health and Safety Laboratory – a national asset and hidden treasure

HSEQ Mungo Stacy - 27th February 2017

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The spa town of Buxton in Derbyshire is the highest market town in England and a gateway to the Peak District National Park. It...

Expertise saves time and money

HSEQ Mungo Stacy - 23rd December 2016

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Supplying ecological services to the rail industry almost always presents an interesting challenge. Emergency works programmes rely upon the ability to attend site with...

Lengthy recycling

HSEQ - 21st May 2012

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Recycling is not only good for the environment, it is also a good way to save money. Network Rail has been getting very involved in...

Infrarail seminars: Sustainability for a modern railway contractor

Events - 27th April 2012

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On Thursday 3 May at 11:10, Steve Holmes, Safety Director at Balfour Beatty Rail will be presenting 'Sustainability for a modern railway contractor' at...

Specially Interesting

HSEQ Nigel Wordsworth BSc(Hons) MCIJ - 13th April 2012

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As the world becomes a greener place, with green initiatives, a green agenda and even green trains(!), landowners and businesses are being encouraged to...

It’s Vital!

HSEQ Nigel Wordsworth BSc(Hons) MCIJ - 5th April 2012

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This year’s Infrarail show is approaching rapidly, and a look through the list of exhibitors reveals that Vital Rail will be one of them. Vital...

Levelling on crossings

HSEQ Grahame Taylor - 8th March 2012

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“No, I can’t sleep at night! I think of level crossings and level crossing safety all the time as we have so much to...

Stand and Deliver

HSEQ - 16th February 2012

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Metal theft is a major problem on today’s railways. Stuart Marsh has looked at the subject as a whole elsewhere in this issue, but...

Cable theft: The continuing menace

HSEQ Stuart Marsh - 14th February 2012

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Cable Theft. Like the proverbial bad penny, it’s a subject that keeps cropping up, although the monetary value concerned is somewhat higher. The continuing...

The dismantling plan

HSEQ Graeme Bickerdike - 13th January 2012

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There was genuine dismay in parts of the North-East when Auf Wiedersehen, Pet re-emerged from TV oblivion in 2002. Not because of Jimmy Nail’s singing...

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