First results of refill revolution at British train stations
The ‘refill revolution’ provided by the British infrastructure manager Network Rail has set the first results in reducing the plastic pollution. It has allowed saving the equivalent of one million plastic bottles. The company aims...Read more
Colas Rail gets three contracts from Network Rail
Colar Rail UK, a subsidiary of Colas Group, has obtained three major contracts from infrastructure manager Network Rail. The British rail freight and maintenance company will supply signalling, telecoms, other equipment and provide rail haulage...Read more
Network Rail upgrades GSM-R cab radios
British infrastructure manager Network Rail will retrofit the GSM-R cab radios of the entire rolling stock fleet in the United Kingdom. The upgrading will start in October when Siemens Mobility will supply 11,000 cab communication...Read more
Network Rail monitors tracks with helicopters
British infrastructure manager Network Rail provides condition monitoring of railway tracks with the help of helicopters. The air vehicles allow the company to cover large areas in a short amount of time, identify the smallest...Read more
Fugro inspects railway network of Wales
Dutch technology company Fugro has started inspecting the railway network in Wales and the border counties of England. The contractor will survey around 1,368 kilometres of tracks and will provide a holistic view of the...Read more
BAM wins new multimillion railway contract in UK
BAM Nuttall, the UK subsidiary of the Royal BAM Group, was awarded by the country’s railway infrastructure manager Network Rail with a new five-year contract. The deal worth 320 million Pounds (364 million Euros) covers...Read more
Railway operators and track managers join forces in infrastructure measuring
Railway infrastructure monitoring becomes more and more sophisticated. Infrastructure managers analyse not only the conditions of the rails but also the trains running on it. Sometimes, infrastructure managers know more about the rolling stock of...Read more
Construction extra line Felixstowe branch to commence
Network Rail engineers have installed 2,300 sleepers along with ballast, the stones that form the track bed, in preparation of the construction of an additional line on the Felixstowe branch, the vital railway line connecting...Read more
Network Rail wants European Commission to block Siemens-Alstom merger
British infrastructure manager Network Rail has asked the European Commission to block the merger of Siemens and Alstom, because it would do ‘great harm’ to the railways in Great Britain. Network Rail chief executive Andrew Haines...Read moreNetwork Rail to use Internet of Things to prevent flooding
Network Rail is currently conducting trials with an Internet of Things technology to prevent flooding of railway lines. The British railway manager carries out the experiments, which are part of the TrackWater project, in collaboration...Read more
New Managing Director appointed for Bombardier Transportation in United Kingdom
Bombardier Transportation has appointed senior rail executive Phil Hufton as its new Managing Director and Chairman of the Board for Bombardier Transportation in the United Kingdom, effective from October 1, 2018. In addition, Mr Hufton...Read more
Network Rail Scotland uses 3D scanner for railway modelling
Network Rail Scotland has begun using a track-based three-dimensional scanner to model the railway infrastructure ahead of the arrival of new trains onto the network. With new fleets of trains arriving onto Scotland’s railway, including...Read more
‘Action plan’ should prevent second Lewisham incident
Infrastructure manager Network Rail and train operating company Southeastern have agreed to make changes both to the railway infrastructure and processes to prevent another incident like the one on March 2 in Lewisham in southeast...Read more