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Bangkok Skytrain extension opens using Bombardier wayside rail system

International Nigel Wordsworth BSc(Hons) MCIJ -
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The latest extension to Bangkok’s rapid transit Skytrain, the 13km Bearing-Samut Prakam section of the Sukhumvit line, opened recently using a turnkey wayside rail...
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Signalling procurement enters the Digital Age

Digital Railway Clive Kessell -
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As the advent of the digital railway gathers pace, so the procurement of systems associated with it will need to adapt. It might prove...
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Upgrading the continental connection

Infrastructure Clive Kessell -
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Another ERTMS announcement has recently emerged, this time concerning the London to Paris and Brussels high-speed routes through the Channel Tunnel. At a meeting...
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Digital delusion: A lesson from not-so-long ago

Rail News David Shirres BSc CEng MIMechE DEM -
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When the nationalised railway was split up in 1994, former British Rail engineers now working for Railtrack faced an interesting time. While railway engineering...
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The benefits of adopting new technologies

Rail News RailEngineer -
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The latest developments in technology have proven capable of some remarkable achievements across all walks of life. For example, not so long ago, mastering...
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Managing a communications network

Rail News Clive Kessell -
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Almost since railways began, they have enjoyed the privilege of being able to provide, operate and maintain their own telecommunications network. In the early...
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Traffic Management – Clarity and Purpose?

Rail Projects Clive Kessell -
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When Traffic Management Systems (TMS) were first described in Rail Engineer (issue 115, May 2014), they were heralded as a quick win to improve...
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Future train radio – What’s possible?

Rail News Paul Darlington CEng FIET FIRSE -
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Throughout the world, many railways use the interoperable radio communications network, GSM-R (Global System for Mobile Communications - Rail), for operational voice communications and...
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Digital Railway: delivering differently

Digital Railway Paul Darlington CEng FIET FIRSE -
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Following the announcement in May by Secretary of State for Transport Chris Grayling and the chief executive of Network Rail, Mark Carne, that all...
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GTR & The Digital Railway

Digital Railway Clive Kessell -
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Prompted by the major timetable change on Southern Railway in May 2018 and the first stage of an enhanced Thameslink train service across London,...
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Ushering in a new era: North Wales Railway Upgrade Project

Rail News Paul Darlington CEng FIET FIRSE -
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Over the weekend before Easter 2018, Siemens Rail Automation commissioned its low-cost digital-ready modular signalling solution on the North Wales Coast (NWC) resignalling programme...
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What is Digital Ready?

Digital Railway Paul Darlington CEng FIET FIRSE -
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On 10 May 2018, the Secretary of State for Transport, Chris Grayling, and Mark Carne, chief executive Network Rail, supported by David Waboso, managing...
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A General Perspective of 5G

Rail News Clive Kessell -
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For the rail industry, how to replace the ageing GSM-R radio networks is an ever-present challenge. Thoughts over the past ten years have progressed...
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Communications on the Central Line

Rail News Clive Kessell -
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Operational communications are important in supporting both signalling and power control on any railway but, for a major city metro line, the need becomes...
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An international metro review

Rail News Clive Kessell -
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The latest Aspect conference of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE) was held in Singapore, and a report appeared in last month’s Rail...
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Tipping the balance towards a digital future

Digital Railway Mungo Stacy -
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The application of digital technology onto the UK’s crowded rail network seems to be the logical answer to the pressing concerns of capacity, reliability...
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