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Part 3, Operational Trials In November 2017 (issue 157), Rail Engineer reported on trials undertaken at the Rail Innovation...
Sustainability and Decarbonisation: What are transformer losses?
Guest writer: Neville Haide It is a good question, and one that needs to be answered and better understood by...
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...
OLErt – Overhead Line and Pantograph Monitoring
In this digital age, railways are harvesting increasing volumes of data (‘Big Data’) on the performance of their assets but converting raw data into...
It’s the bits and pieces that make it all work
Take a look at a typical section of overhead line equipment (OLE) and you will see a mass of wires, masts and...
Simple and lightweight mounting for digital signalling equipment
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...
ATO – Exploiting the technology
Automatic Train Operation (ATO) is nowadays a given technology for metro operation and, although it is still...
Is the future 5G or Wi-Fi 6?
There are currently two main technology choices used for railway radio communications, mobile telephone (GSM/LTE) or Wi-Fi. GSM-R private networks are used predominately for...
Telecoms innovations for tomorrow’s railway
At a recent IRSE section event in Birmingham, Tim Lane, principal strategy and innovation manager, Network Rail Telecom (NRT), gave a presentation on Network...
Inspiring Innovation
For ten years, the innovation conference run by the Railway Industry Association (RIA) has gone from strength to strength and, in 2018, won the...
Single Line Internet Control
The safe operation and signalling of single-line railways are crucial as any head-on crash between two trains is potentially catastrophic. Incidents of this nature...
Rail Industry Readiness Levels (RIRLs) defined and explained
Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) were first defined by NASA in 1989 as a method of classifying the maturity of a technology or product...
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...
A Necessary GSM-R Mobile Upgrade
It is easy to forget that GSM-R, as the standardised track to train radio system across Europe, has been around for over 25 years....
Thameslink Telecoms
The Thameslink north-south rail link across London is nearing fulfilment. Despite the timetable problems back in May 2018, the enhanced capacity on the route...