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31 May 2005 | By Hans Paukert, Charge de Mission, UIC (International Union of Railways)
During their historical development, the railways in Europe have adopted their own technical standards and operating rules according to national requirements. As a result, the European railways use different train control systems (INDUSI, KVB, LZB, TVM, ATB etc.) and have different warning distances (400m to 6,000m). This situation constitutes a…
31 May 2005 | By Jürgen Siegmann, Head of Track and Railway Operations, University of Berlin
Since 1997, the Department of Track and Railway Operations of the Technical University of Berlin has been led by Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Jürgen Siegmann, a distinguished expert in the field of railway operations who is frequently asked for his expertise by the industry. His department currently employs 13 assistants who…
31 May 2005 | By Sascha Lay, Material Technologist, Pfleiderer track systems
This article will cover the effects of lateral separation cracks in the concrete track slab on the durability of the RHEDA 2000® ballastless track system. The RHEDA 2000® ballastless track system consists of a jointless concrete track slab with bi-block lattice-truss concrete sleepers, on a hydraulically bonded layer (HBL), as shown in…
2 March 2005 | By Michaël Steenbergen, Researcher Railway Engineering and Coenraad Esveld, Professor of Railway Engineering, TU Delft and Rolf Dollevoet, ProRail
Delft University of Technology has developed new technical regulation standards for the geometrical deviations of metallurgic rail welds in The Netherlands, in cooperation with the Dutch rail infrastructure manager ProRail.
2 March 2005 | By Ken Cordner, Editorial Contributor
Network Rail’s first new high output ballast cleaning system from Plasser & Theurer, delivered to time and budget last summer, has begun work on the Great Western main line which links London to Bristol and South Wales. It is the first of a series of new high output track renewal…
