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Getting ready for the Digital Railway
The modernisation of the signalling and control systems that manage Britain’s railway will represent a sizeable chunk of the planned investment for CP6 and...
Rail News
Pre-recorded warnings could advise train drivers of problems ahead
RSSB has published new advice which gives signallers the option of alerting train drivers who are approaching poor rail conditions through an automated message, allowing...
Rail News
Thameslink signallers ETCS ready
Network Rail has successfully delivered a training programme to prepare Thameslink signallers for the introduction of ETCS and ATO.The course was developed by the Thameslink...
People
From football pitch to Porsche 924 – rail worker revs up fundraising efforts
Railway football hero Gavin Johnson has swapped his boots for racing colours as he pushes ahead with motor racing plans in a Porsche 924.
Motor...
HSEQ
Round-up: The Rail Safety Summit 2017
The offices of solicitors Eversheds Sutherland near St Paul's Cathedral in the heart of London was the venue this year. It was my pleasure...
Infrastructure
Mott MacDonald to support installation of new Thameslink TMS
Mott MacDonald will support Hitachi in the implementation of its Tranista traffic management system for the Thameslink route.
The engineering consultancy will advise on the...
Rail News
Risk from trains passing red signals has been cut by 90% in 20 years
Twenty years after the Southall rail crash, the RSSB has said that the risk of trains passing red signals has been cut by more...
Events
Digital developments of the digital railway
Striving to tackle the country’s rail capacity problem, companies are making a sustained push to digitise the railway. Stewart Thorpe reports from the Digital...
People
Digital Rail Summit 2017: key findings and pictures from the industry conference
The 2017 Digital Rail Summit examined the visible and invisible aspects of digitising the railway and took place at Bird & Bird's offices in London on...
HSEQ
Embedding safety into 4LM
Managing risk on a project isn’t just about being the safety police, says Sarah; it is much more important to support and encourage safe...
Rail News
Digital learning curve
Skills forecasting is a tricky business. With advanced programmes like Digital Railway, it is not easy to know exactly how technology will evolve in...
People
Apprentices going Underground with 4LM
Being scouted by a professional team is the goal for any aspiring footballer, but it’s also where the hard work really begins. ‘You’re classed...
People
Why I became a signalling apprentice
Pulling cable through the interconnected tunnels of London Overground’s East London Line while most people are asleep is a world apart from the predictable...
Rail News
Behind the scenes at Old Dalby
Being invited to visit a live test site is a good indication that things are going pretty well or a project - not something you would say the...
Rail News
Kellingley 7
Seven miners, made redundant when Kellingley Colliery in Beal, North Yorkshire, closed down last December, are fighting their collective misfortune by training for a new...
Infrastructure
Guiding rail through its technological revolution
telent Managing Director, Rail, Steve Pears spoke to Marc Johnson about telent’s future and how new technology is the answer to rail’s skills challenge.The...
Rail News
UK needs to accelerate Digital Railway ambition
Chief executive of Keolis, and chairman of the Rail Delivery Group’s technology and operations working group, Alistair Gordon said the business case exists to...
Rail News
Digital boost for Thameslink
Hitachi Rail Europe has been awarded the traffic management contract for Thameslink, another step towards the digital railway.Hitachi Rail’s traffic management systems support railway...
