The Great Northern ‘Northern City Line’ to the City of London has become the UK rail network’s first commuter railway to operate without conventional signals, heralding a major milestone in the national deployment of cutting-edge […]
Comms Design, a Unipart company that specialises in digital signalling and communication equipment, is preparing, alongside Transport for Wales, to trial a digital signalling system that will enhance passenger experience and optimise train operations on […]
As part of the Railway Industry Association’s Rail Fellowship Programme, Jason McCartney, Conservative MP for Colne Valley in West Yorkshire, visited the Institute of Railway Research (IRR), a leading centre for railway engineering research linked […]
The Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) has appointed multi-disciplinary professional services consulting firm WSP to advise on the delivery of battery-powered trains on the UK rail network. WSP will work closely with industry stakeholders, […]
The UK Research Partnership Investment Fund (UKRPIF) has awarded the University of Birmingham, supported by Siemens Mobility, £15 million to establish a new railway research and innovation centre at Goole in the East Riding of […]
TransPennine Express (TPE), the train operator recently taking under government control after First Group’s contract was not renewed, has added 13 new languages to its state-of-the-art digital information screens to improve communications with its diverse […]
For the first time in the UK, Blockchain will now be used to improve rail possession planning thanks to a recent partnership between infrastructure consultancy Amey and technology company Finboot. Amey will pioneer the new […]
Europe’s railways aren’t the only public transport operators developing hydrogen power as one way of reducing emissions. Hydrogen is also being used to power buses, and the world’s first fleet of double-decker hydrogen buses officially […]
The West Yorkshire village of Mytholmroyd has been hard-hit by flooding in the past five years, but a new facility at the town’s station will help protect the area. Rail operator Northern has carried out […]
The HS2 project is developing a radical new technology that will clean up the emissions from its heavy construction equipment at a fraction of the cost of doing it by more conventional means. HS2 has […]
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