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Chris Carr, Head of Safety at the European Railway Agency (ERA), reflects on rail safety performance data for 2014 at a European level, and examines how the industry should work together to address future challenges and create an encouraging safety culture.
Despite continual growth in usage, rail remains the safest form of land transport in the UK. George Bearfield, Director of System Safety at RSSB1 explains what the organisation is doing to improve safety on the rail network and its role in ensuring that the industry doesn’t get complacent.
Despite the fact that serious efforts have been made to fight metal theft at national level and that metal theft has decreased in some countries in Europe over the last year, it still remains a daily concern for many services of general interest – such as railways, public transport, energy…
25 January 2016 | By Daniel Davis, Train Driver, Gloucester Depot
In a blog for Global Railway Review, Daniel Davis delves into the history of the Swindon to Gloucester route known as the ‘ Golden Valley Line ’
20 January 2016 | By Neil Wilkie, Group Head of Fusion People
Neil Wilkie of Fusion People looks at current and future rail development infrastructure projects and the impact they have on the rail industry job market helping to fill the skills shortage gap. Currently, the UK’s railways are undergoing several projects that will transform the rail network. Plans to unite the…
This article explores the rail industry shift from a national to international focus and how rail professionals can learn from each other.
Due to the dynamic and aerodynamic effects of rail transit through tunnels, and as reference in this article to lorries loading and unloading on Eurotunnel wagons, railway structures are suffering forces which can potentially lead to fatigue failures.
In this issue: UK profile with articles about Network Rail’s ‘Digital Railway’ programme, Network Rail’s new mobile maintenance machines, a Crossrail update, plus the growth of Govia Thameslink Railway. In our Winter Operations supplement, Trafikverket and London Overground share their winter preparation activities. And Gonzalo Ferre Moltó, ADIF’s President, covers…
In our latest free-to-view Winter Operations Supplement, Trafikverket and London Overground share their winter preparation activities, and Jane Dobson from the Rail Safety & Standards Board discusses how winter plans can be improved in GB...
In our latest free-to-view Noise & Vibrations Supplement, Roll2Rail colleagues Adam Mirza and Eulalia Peris cover how the research project can lay the foundations for quieter railways, plus there’s a technical article about vibrational accelerated long life and shock tests on Eurotunnel’s pagoda structures...
9 December 2015 | By David Packer, CEO, Permanent Way Institution (PWI)
The Permanent Way Institution (PWI) is the UK professional engineering institution for rail infrastructure engineers. At the heart of its recent strategic review was answering the question ‘What is the role of a professional engineering institution in the 21st century?’ PWI CEO, David Packer, explains more...
9 December 2015 | By Jerry England, Group Digital Railway Director at Network Rail
Jerry England is Group Digital Railway Director at Network Rail where he leads the rail industry programme seeking to accelerate the digital enablement of rail transport. Here he explains that to modernise the UK’s railway network, creating a national strategy for digital capacity is needed which will lead to more…
9 December 2015 | By Craig Mathys, Programme Manager at Network Rail
Over the next five years, Network Rail will spend and invest £38 billion as part of its Railway Upgrade Plan to deliver better, faster, greener services, and improved punctuality, reliability and safety, while simultaneously keeping the railway open to enable four and a half million journeys to take place, every…
9 December 2015 | By Charles Horton, Chief Executive Officer, Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR)
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is now Britain’s biggest rail franchise – carrying 237 million passenger journeys a year and earning the Department for Transport (DfT) £1.3 billion in annual passenger revenue. Operating over 3,200 services every weekday, plus managing 236 stations and including 6,800 staff, the business oversees four different…
9 December 2015 | By Chris Enoch, Crossrail Railway Systems Project Manager
How is construction progressing on Crossrail – Europe’s biggest infrastructure project? Chris Enoch, Crossrail Railway Systems Project Manager gives Global Railway Review an update on works and what’s next for the ambitious £14.8 billion rail project to build a new east-west railway across London and the South East.
