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Remote monitoring innovation to boost winter resilience
Rail engineers face considerable pressure to maintain high levels of asset resilience in the face of a warmer, wetter climate placing unexpected pressures on ageing and over-stretched infrastructure....
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FFU: A sustainable choice for Eskmeals Viaduct
Nigel Keightley Since 1980, Sekisui has engineered and manufactured synthetic wooden baulks made from Fibre-reinforced Foamed Urethane (FFU) and, in 2014, Network Rail engineers installed the first...
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Testing on the hillside
The song ‘We’ll keep a welcome in the hillside’ comes to mind as I take a taxi up a Welsh valley to the miner’s welfare hall at Onllwyn, 15 miles northwest of Swansea. This is the base for my visit to...
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The Semmering Base Tunnel: overcoming the Alps
One of the highlights of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Eastern European Rail Tour in May/June 2024 was a journey from Austria’s Vienna Hauptbahnhof over the Semmering pass to Mürzzuschlag...
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The curious case of the Class 805 improvement notice
The Health and Safety at Work Act gives inspectors powers to issue prohibition and improvement notices. Prohibition notices are issued when it is considered necessary to stop an activity that involves...
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Garforth station’s new footbridge opened in July, replacing a 190-year-old North Eastern Railway cast iron structure. An additional link span also connects the station to Aberford Road. Work to...
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Calling for connectivity part 2: The Mayors’ plan
Less than a month after the publication of the Rail and Urban Transport Review (RUTR) came the ‘Opportunity through Connectivity’ (OtC) report which was published on 13 September. This reinforces the...
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Calling for connectivity Part 1: Labour’s report
In December, the Labour Party commissioned a Rail and Urban Transport Review (RUTR) to examine how a future government could accelerate connectivity within and between the UK’s key urban areas. This...
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Growing the economy
All major political parties agree about the need to grow the economy, yet they differ on how this can be done. Some argue that tax cuts enable people to spend more and allow companies to retain more...
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RailStaff Awards 2024 – Finalists announced!
It’s been another fantastic year at RailStaff Awards HQ. We thank everyone who nominated someone special and voted for them. From apprentices to customer service representatives, rail engineers to...
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