Electrification
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Electrification 27 May
Why electrification? The Network Rail perspective
Network Rail has a plan for the electrification of many routes across the UK, after a gap of a quarter of a century
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Electrification 27 May
Focus on collaboration - ABC
What do Alstom, Babcock and Costain bring to the National Electrification Programme? How do they collaborate? PAUL PRENTICE spells out ABC
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Electrification 27 May
High-wire act
COLIN PRESTON explains how SYSTRA is conquering the challenges faced in the £742 million Edinburgh Waverley - Glasgow Queen Street electrification project
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Electrification 27 May
Plugging the skills gap for generations
The National Skills Academy for Railway Engineering (NSARE) is leading the way in recruiting a new generation of railway engineers.
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Electrification 27 May
Electrification apprentices: engineers for the future
Network Rail’s apprenticeships develop the electrification engineers of the future, as PAUL PRENTICE discovers.
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Electrification 27 May
Firms take stock of the market
The gathering pace of electrification is attracting foreign train manufacturers to eye up the UK market - even if that means they must proceed with caution
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Electrification 21 Jan
Make haste at Hastings
All parties are agreed that better connectivity from Hastings to London via High Speed 1 is a sound idea. But when will it happen and is it even a done deal?
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Electrification 18 Nov
Ely’s electric revolution
RICHARD CLINNICK recounts just why electrification was so important for one of East Anglia’s key railway locations