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Stuart Calvert to be new Digital Railway head

Business RailEngineer - 14th February 2019

Stuart Calvert, director of programme technical services and supply chain at Network Rail’s Group Digital Railway (GDR), has been announced as its new managing...

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

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

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

GSM-R: a migration strategy to its successor?

Business Clive Kessell - 30th January 2019

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The thorny question of what should replace GSM-R as the future radio bearer for track to train communication has recently been the subject of...

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,...

Alstom/Siemens merger – new proposals

Business Nigel Wordsworth BSc(Hons) MCIJ - 28th January 2019

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Siemens and Alstom, two major suppliers to the world’s railways, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 26 September 2017 to combine Siemens’ mobility business...

David Waboso to retire from Digital Railway in March

Rail News Nigel Wordsworth BSc(Hons) MCIJ - 8th January 2019

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David Waboso CBE, managing director of Network Rail’s Digital Railway programme, has announced that he will retire in March, the same month in which...

Lessons from the past – the collision at London Waterloo on 15 August 2017

Rail News Paul Darlington CEng FIET FIRSE - 31st December 2018

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A nasty little collision between a passenger train and a Network Rail barrier train, that was protecting workers at Waterloo station, was the subject...

A GWR heritage signalling success on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway

Heritage Clive Kessell - 31st December 2018

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Rail Engineer normally contains articles that feature new technology and the commissioning of the latest projects and provides an opportunity for suppliers to promote...

Improving safety for trackside installations

Electrification Nigel Wordsworth BSc(Hons) MCIJ - 20th December 2018

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Across the UK, the rail network supports over 4.6 million passenger journeys a day and over 20,000 miles of track. As numbers grow year-on-year,...

Bangkok Skytrain extension opens using Bombardier wayside rail system

International Nigel Wordsworth BSc(Hons) MCIJ - 14th December 2018

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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...

Signalling procurement enters the Digital Age

Digital Railway Clive Kessell - 10th September 2018

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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...

Upgrading the continental connection

Infrastructure Clive Kessell - 10th September 2018

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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...

Digital delusion: A lesson from not-so-long ago

Rail News David Shirres BSc CEng MIMechE DEM - 3rd September 2018

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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...

The benefits of adopting new technologies

Rail News RailEngineer - 30th August 2018

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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...

Managing a communications network

Rail News Clive Kessell - 30th August 2018

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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...

Traffic Management – Clarity and Purpose?

Rail Projects Clive Kessell - 13th August 2018

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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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