Engineering - Page 2

Philip Haigh joins one of Network Rail’s video inspection units, to learn how the technology is improving detection, efficiency and safety.

The new government is looking to recruit 100,000 people into the rail industry. One train maintenance company has taken matters into its own hands.

Chris Howe reports on progress with two key structures in Buckinghamshire.

The Infrastructure Achievement of the Year award in the national Rail Awards went to Keltbray and Network Rail for the LTS Mk1 OLE Replacement.

Network Rail’s Southern Region is taking a new approach to renewals. Southern Integrated Delivery Programme Director explains the process to Richard Wilcock.

Network Rail had planned to divert the railway along the Teignmouth Sea Wall, so what’s planned instead? Nick Brodrick reports in part 4 of our Dawlish series.

SARAH BOOTH and Dr CRISTINA RUSCITTO, of Baines Simmons Safety Services, discuss areas for improvements in fatigue risk management for the UK heavy and light rail industry

“Extremes of feelings” is how Network Rail Programme Engineering Manager Emma Lewis contrasts the polar-opposite events at Dawlish on February 4 2014 and July 3 2023. On that first date, high winds and strong waves punched a 100-metre hole through the Great Western Main Line’s Sea Wall defences alongside Riviera Terrace.

Richard Foster joins apprentices from the London South Bank University's Rail & Rail Systems Engineering course on a 'field trip' to the Bluebell Railway, where they receive training on railway systems

A population-based approach taken by the National Infrastructure Commission “heralds a serious rebalancing of rail expenditure away from London and the South East”, says Greengauge 21.