Academic input to improve performance of Britain’s East Midlands Railway
Aerial view of the Eastcroft depot in Nottingham showing multipole units and locomotives on the sheds EMR
East Midlands Railway, which provides over 450 train services each day across England, has entered into a collaboration with the specialist engineers at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre. The programme is intended to improve efficiency at the company’s sprawling Eastcroft depot. The simulation tools developed within the programme will help simulate different scenarios at the Nottingham’s Eastcroft depot, improving operational efficiency.
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“Better” , etc. comparatives is mantra within new speech of railways…
Until IM:s and politicians (owners) recognise “elephant in room”, academics will remain at drivers seat of railways…
At any individual supply chain, now however, decisively low quality, weak link, has to be attended – and within transports, indeed railways, by far is the one to attend!
Until railways, all the way, infrastructure, etc., prove robust, thus resilient and redundant, regrettably, mission will remain impossible.