Operational communications are important in supporting both signalling and power control on any railway but, for a major city metro line, the need becomes...
With the main Crossrail project now mostly complete, and with tracks running right through the new tunnels, there has been much talk of Crossrail 2 as the next project, crossing under London from South West to North East and linking Wimbledon with the Leigh Valley.
London Underground (LU). The clue is in the name - “underground”. So how does the organisation have a leaf-fall problem? Despite the “underground” in...
The final clips have been installed on London's Elizabeth line, completing the track work for the capital's £14.8 billion railway.
The final piece of track...
At over 120 years old, Glasgow’s ‘Clockwork Orange’ Subway tunnel system is the third oldest underground urban railway still in operation throughout the world....
Four of London Underground’s lines suffer from a bit of an identity crisis. Individually they are well known; the Circle, District, Metropolitan and Hammersmith &...
Glasgow’s Subway is the world’s third-oldest underground railway (after London and Budapest). When it opened in 1896, there was no rail connection to the...
Tunnelling for the £15 billion railway was completed last May with the final two TBMs, Elizabeth and Victoria, being decommissioned. The task of fitting...
