Engineering - Page 4

Network Rail engineering teams are deploying industrial-sized ballast excavators on the West Coast main line on four successive weekends in August as part of track upgrades through Stoke-on-Trent.

Technology to detect potential vegetation and infrastructure hazards automatically in real time is being trialled on the East Coast Main Line.

Harry Needle Railroad Company in partnership with Swietelsky for traction and maintenance support

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.

The Island Line on the Isle of Wight is to close completely for a month from September, and partly for nine months.

Network Rail has warned passengers travelling between Sheffield and Manchester Piccadilly that the railway will be closed in July and August between New Mills Central and Chinley in Derbyshire for emergency repair work.

Traditionally a male-dominated industry, rail is seeing a surge in female representation, with companies like TransPennine Express (TPE), Northern and Greater Anglia leading the charge.

Tom Edwards recalls the day in December that the Great Western hit the headlines for the wrong reasons, and asks how its failings can be rectified.

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

The economic prospects of Birmingham and Manchester are being seriously damaged because of the Government’s failure to come up with any plans to improve the West Coast Main Line, to replace the cancelled northern leg of HS2, writes Howard Johnston.