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As the world, and the railway, goes more and more digital, the big growth industry seems to have been in the production of...

Guest writer: Paul WalkerThere is a drive on the rail infrastructure to reduce the overall cost...

Guest writer: Neville HaideIt is a good question, and one that needs to be answered and better understood by...

Guest writer: Caroline BacherSince 2007, Network Rail has steadily been replacing the overhead line equipment (OLE) on...

Guest writers: Graeme Brindle and Nathan SealyMuch has been discussed recently about the state of electrification in...

Guest writer: Danny AisthorpeWith the need to electrify significant parts of Great Britain’s rail network to...

Major projects, new trains, bewildering technology: these are the big-ticket items that command everyone’s attention these days. And why wouldn’t they? Who cares about...

No matter how reliable or how safe the railway becomes, incidents will always occur, be they related to weather, safety, technical or human...

A common bearer (transport layer) telecoms network takes advantage of the new digital technologies and ‘big data’ applications in order to provide a safe,...

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

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

Guest author: Tom Bowman, commercial director at Dura Composites.The year-long independent rail review announced by Chris Grayling in...

At the time of year when days are shortest, nights longest, and when Network Rail carries out its most extensive work over the Christmas...

Ballast dust continues to be a priority issue, with several high-profile campaigns such as ‘No Time to Lose’ and Network Rail’s Ballast Dust Working...

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,...

With the number of railway journeys in Britain having doubled between 1998 and 2018, and passenger numbers predicted to increase by 40 per cent...