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Innovation is key when it comes to “Putting the passenger first”
Over the Easter weekend, the West Coast main line was closed over four days during the replacement of Willesden North junction....
Bearing Up for Reliability
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...
ORBIS – an unsung but unqualified success
Sunday 31 March 2019 signified not only the end of Network
Rail’s Control Period 5, but with it the end of the ORBIS...
Moving Mud – Dealing with weather damage around the country
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,...
Risk-based CWR Management
A regular concern within the rail industry has long been the
conflict between the need for standards and the wish to be able...
Network Rail awards Fugro contract to survey 850 route miles of track in Wales
Network Rail has announced plans to conduct a survey of more than 850 route miles of track across Wales and the border...
Repoint – New Thinking in Point Machines
Faults tend to have significant impact on railway
performance, disrupting or stopping train movement. Railway administrators make
significant efforts to reduce or eliminate sources...
Brighton main line reopens after a 9-day closure
The Brighton main line in Sussex has reopened following a
nine-day closure while Network Rail and its contractors carried out major improvement
work.
Barnehurst cutting reopened after landslip closes the Bexleyheath line for a week
The cutting at Barnehurst, on
the Bexleyheath line between Lewisham and Dartford, Kent, reopened on Monday 18
February after being closed for a week.
West Coast main line reopens after lorry strikes bridge
Network Rail has reopened the West Coast main line through
the Stafford area after more than 24 hours of disruption caused by a...
Ambergate junction reopens on schedule – train services resume between Derby and Matlock
Network Rail has reopened Ambergate junction in the Derwent
Valley – where the branch to Matlock leaves the Midland main line – after...
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...
Christmas 2018: Westbury North junction renewal
Christmas
and New Year at Westbury saw the station and its associated routes closed for
12 days to carry out some long-awaited major works...
Christmas 2018 at Battersea Pier junction
This
Christmas, Battersea Pier junction became the latest focus of intense activity
as it was renewed over an 11-day blockade. Battersea Pier junction is...
Network Rail announces new track systems contracts that will last for ten years
Network Rail has announced two (shortly to be three) track systems contracts that could cover the next 10 years and be worth...
Christmas work at Wellingborough North Junction
One of
Network Rail’s bigger Christmas jobs in 2018 was that at Wellingborough North
Junction, 57m 0ch to 69m 40ch on the Midland main...
