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On 6 March 2019, Global Railway Review hosted a webinar in association with Siemens Mobility which explained their seamless digital supply chain for ordering spare parts and how the rail sector is already benefiting from this new technology.
Darren Caplan, Chief Executive of the Railway Industry Association (RIA), writes that whilst the UK’s economy and its role in the world is clearly under the spotlight, it is heartening that research carried out in 2018 shows the UK railway industry is an even greater economic contributor to the country…
In this issue we explore level crossing safety, how to meet passenger expectations in an era of seamless mobility, how innovative techniques can deliver safer and more efficient infrastructure, and UK rail experts participate in our Leaders’ Debate to focus on how to overcome challenges to transform the UK rail…
In 2016, Global Railway Review published an article1 detailing the work of a team at Loughborough University that had developed an idea for a novel track switch mechanism that could, for the first time, bring fault tolerance through redundancy to track switching. This promised to be the first significant change…
The Institute of Railway Engineering and Transport Economy at Graz University of Technology has vast experience in railway asset and lifecycle management and has collaborated with various infrastructure managers such as ÖBB, SBB and Bane NOR over the last 25 years. Here, Ivan Vidovic and Matthias Landgraf from the Institute…
The ‘permanent way’ is often seen as a traditional and well understood technology – surely there can’t be much new out there? But as David Clarke, Technical Director of the Railway Industry Association (RIA) explains, you’d be surprised – UK railways, their suppliers and British universities are at the forefront…
