Innovation

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

Now, what are the similarities between Cyrano de Bergerac, the central character in the 1897 play of the same name by Edmond Rostand...

Signal engineers tend to have a measure of distrust when new ideas and concepts are put forward. This is understandable, given that any radical...

MegaTech celebrates ten years of platforms with a differenceNext time you are standing on a station, waiting for...

Guest writer: Neville HaideIt is a good question, and one that needs to be answered and better understood by...

With the ever-present focus on putting passengers first, train reliability has to be high up the priority list to achieve this. Modern rolling stock...

In this digital age, railways are harvesting increasing volumes of data (‘Big Data’) on the performance of their assets but converting raw data into...

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...

AECOM, the global infrastructure services firm, is developing one of the UK’s first 3D-printed commercial products made from graphene-reinforced polymer. The company’s CNCTArch is designed...

The Shepperton branch line in the south west of London and north Surrey, which is part of the Feltham signal box area, connects...

For the first time, a foreign team has won the Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ Railway Challenge competition.Organised by the...

The UK rail network is under continuous improvement by the operators, which creates certain demands on the type of DC-DC power converters required. Especially...

Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education’s (BCRRE) research into the application of fuel cells and hydrogen in railway traction system design stretches back...

For ten years, the innovation conference run by the Railway Industry Association (RIA) has gone from strength to strength and, in 2018, won the...

Several railway engineering companies featured strongly at the recent Plantworx Innovation Awards, and several others of the innovations that were applauded have obvious applications...

The press demand for more innovation & in the rail industry may be welcomed by many, but those who shout loudestrarely know...