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A virtual look at Crossrail’s Farringdon station
To show passengers what its new Farringdon station will look like, the digital team at Crossrail has pulled together a virtual tour of the...
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Government to fund feasibility work for digital signalling on three more main lines
Rail Minister Chris Heaton-Harris has announced £1.2 million of new government funding to accelerate feasibility work for digital signalling on vital sections of the...
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University of Birmingham opens new centre for digital railway engineering
The University of Birmingham has opened a new purpose-built centre designed to deliver specialist research in digital railway engineering.The university has partnered with the...
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Bombardier to establish Global Innovation Centre for railway and e-mobility in Västerås, Sweden
Bombardier Transportation is adding a state-of-the-art e-mobility test and technology centre to its current site in Västerås, Sweden.With growing global market interest in e-mobility...
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Perpetuum to become part of Hitachi Rail
Hitachi Rail is to acquire Southampton-based railway technology firm Perpetuum to accelerate its UK digitisation strategy.Perpetuum’s product utilises wireless condition monitoring to spot faults...
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Government to fund digital signalling on East Coast main line
The government has announced that it will invest £350 million to make the East Coast main line into Britain’s first mainline digital rail link...
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Simulators help train new signallers in the West Midlands
To train the railway signallers of the future, Network Rail has opened new training facilities at its Walsall training centre and Birmingham’s New Street...
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LNER introduces FutureLabs to encourage rail innovation
LNER FutureLabs is a new innovation programme from London North Eastern Railway (LNER) that aims to fast-track digital and tech developments into the rail...
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Morson develops app to check if contractors are ‘fit for work’
Responding to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, rail recruitment specialist Morson Group is preparing to supply its 3,000 remote workers with early intervention technology that...
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Farewell to David Waboso
Industry colleague Clive Kessell looks back at the career of the talented project engineerThe impending retirement of David Waboso, who currently heads up the Digital...
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Stuart Calvert to be new Digital Railway head
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 director following...
