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Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, Director-General of the International Union of Railways (UIC), conveys that if there is no demand for rail services from potential customers, then there is no straightforward way to attract the levels of investment that are required to tend to the rail system’s structural challenges.
For Global Railway Review, the asset management organisation team behind Lineas – one of the largest private rail freight operators in Europe – provide details of how usage patterns of locomotives can help to optimise maintenance and how Lineas is equipping its fleet with data and IoT solutions to be…
On 9 November 2017, Global Railway Review hosted a webinar in association with Axon Vibe, which explored how smart mobile apps can help create seamless passenger experiences and provide opportunities for new sources of revenue. Here, Axon Vibe’s Thomas Annicq (CEO US), John Fagan (CTO) and Kilian Ulm (Head of…
Ahead of Global Railway Review’s webinar in association with GHH-BONATRANS on 28 November 2017, we put some questions to Petr Kucharczyk, Technical Sales Specialist and speaker of the webinar, to understand more about the topics to be covered.
On 26 September 2017, Global Railway Review hosted a webinar in association with Prover Technology AB, which explored how the design of interlockings impact rail operations. Here Jesper Carlström – VP Project Delivery and one of the speakers of the webinar – answers some key questions raised.
The digital age has arrived for the railway industry. The ability to sense demand, measure performance and monitor the health of physical assets can help manage capacity and predict and avoid disruption. Yet this inevitably puts more pressure on the industry to keep up with changes to technology.
Crossrail – officially named the Elizabeth line when services start in December 2018 – links 40 stations over 118 kilometres; from Reading and Heathrow to the west of London, to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east.
Issue 6 of Global Railway Review includes articles on the digitalisation of the rail industry, innovation on the London Overground and the funding of railway infrastructure.
From Latvia to London, Global Railway Review’s contributor, Graham Ellis, has been looking at some of Europe’s oldest and newest rolling stock.
International Union of Wagon Keepers1 (UIP) colleagues Gilles Peterhans (Secretary General) and Maria Price (Head of European Policies and Public Affairs) take an in-depth look at the new digital and automation trends impacting wagon keepers and explain how the sector must keep pace with modern-day solutions to deliver more attractive…
The primary objective of the rail sector is to offer highly efficient and attractive transport options to its customers. For Global Railway Review, CER colleagues Libor Lochman (Executive Director) and Emanuele Mastrodonato (Senior Advisor, Interoperability and Digitalisation) explore how the sector must drive forward the implementation of recent technologies, making…
With SNCF, the French national railway company, recently signing a key deal with SilverRail, a market leader in rail travel technology, we speak to Will Phillipson, Co-founder and COO at SilverRail about the importance of promoting rail as a viable and appealing long-distance travel option through agency partnerships.
Jochen Holzfeind, CTO of voestalpine VAE, Oliver Kraft, CEO of voestalpine BWG, and Martin Platzer, Senior Vice President of Marketing at voestalpine Schienen jointly present a view of the future of super-efficient and highly digitalised railway track systems.
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With the news that Angel Trains, along with its partners Alstom and Grand Central, have delivered the UK’s first ETCS-enabled Class 180 trains, Global Railway Review sits down with Mark Hicks, Technical Director at Angel Trains and Michael O’Keefe, Project Manager on the Class 180.
On 20 August 2017, South Western Railway began its operations. We speak to the new franchise about its brand-new fleet of trains and its timetable proposals as well its Station Travel Plans and what it has in the pipeline to provide its passengers with a positive travel experience.
