An orange Christmas: Network Rail’s works over the 2018 Christmas holiday

Electrification Nigel Wordsworth BSc(Hons) MCIJ - 31st January 2019

As usual, Network Rail took advantage of the Christmas and New Year holiday to undertake some of the lengthier and more onerous projects that...

Glasgow Queen Street station – half transformed

Rail News David Shirres BSc CEng MIMechE DEM - 31st January 2019

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Rail Engineer has reported on numerous infrastructure upgrade projects to provide the extra and longer trains needed for increasing passenger numbers. This extra traffic also...

Timing of door closure – how critical is it?

Rail News Clive Kessell - 30th January 2019

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Much has been written and said in recent times about efforts to improve the throughput of trains on metro and inner suburban railways. Using...

Christmas 2018 at Battersea Pier junction

Infrastructure Bob Wright - 30th January 2019

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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...

Christmas 2018: Weaver to Wavertree resignalling

Infrastructure Paul Darlington CEng FIET FIRSE - 29th January 2019

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Weaver to Wavertree resignalling is one of the latest resignalling schemes to be completed and involved new signalling between Edge Hill station, just outside Liverpool,...

Christmas work at Wellingborough North Junction

Infrastructure Chris Parker - 29th January 2019

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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...

Innovative structural drainage for retaining walls and bridge abutments

Infrastructure Nigel Wordsworth BSc(Hons) MCIJ - 29th January 2019

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Guest author: Alan Bamforth, managing director of ABG Ltd. Railway infrastructure has retaining walls and bridge abutments. Inherent in the...

Systems integration: navigating increasing complexity

Business Nigel Wordsworth BSc(Hons) MCIJ - 29th January 2019

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Guest author: Nassar Majothi, director of the rail specialist services group at WSP London. All too often, major infrastructure programmes...

Class 769 Flex in Action

Rail Projects Malcolm Dobell BTech CEng FIMechE - 20th December 2018

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On a sunny afternoon in early November, Rail Engineer travelled to Rothley station on the Great Central Railway, at the invitation of Porterbrook Leasing,...

175 years of progress

People Andy Milne - 11th December 2018

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Electrification of the Great Western main line (GWML) reached a new milestone at the end of October when, following the installation of overhead electrical...

Current research on railway electrification systems

Electrification RailEngineer - 11th December 2018

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Railway electrification provides faster and reliable train journeys compared to those of diesel trains and a strong reduction of pollution in busy stations and...

Safer isolations

Rail News Nigel Wordsworth BSc(Hons) MCIJ - 11th December 2018

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In 1883, Magnus Volk heralded the dawn of a new era in Great Britain with the opening of Volk’s Electric Railway, which, 135 years...

Liverpool Lime Street completion

Rail News Paul Darlington CEng FIET FIRSE - 11th December 2018

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In September 2016 (issue 143), Rail Engineer reported on the development and the proposed designs for the extensive remodelling and resignalling of Liverpool Lime...

New platforms at London Waterloo

Rail News Mark Phillips - 11th December 2018

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The final phase of the major investment by Network Rail to increase capacity on the routes in and out of London Waterloo station is...

Autonomous trams demonstrated in public

Light Rail RailEngineer - 10th December 2018

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Taxi firm Addison Lee announced in mid October that it would be introducing driverless autonomous cars in London by 2021 (its über-competitor Uber has...

An update on the West Midlands Metro

Light Rail Grahame Taylor - 10th December 2018

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It was just under two years ago that the Rail Engineer went to Birmingham to look at the Midland Metro Alliance programme (issue 146,...

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