Network Rail signals huge train control revamp
Britain’s railway signalling and control system is set to undergo the biggest shake-up in the history of the network. The infrastructure agency, Network Rail, has announced a decade-long plan to overhaul and modernise the train...Read more
British university warns of solar threat to railway safety
Lancaster University in the north of England, has claimed that solar flares could knock out signalling systems and cause red signals to turn green. The rather alarmist claims come in a report into the disruptive...Read more
Waterloo signal failure: chaos for Britain’s busiest station
Waterloo Station in London, the busiest in Britain, was brought to a standstill by a massive signal failure in the early hours of Thursday, 13 April. The station which handles nearly 42 million passengers every...Read more
Seven thousand applications for 60-person tour of famous Birmingham signal box
It may be easier to win the National Lottery than to see inside an iconic example of 1960s brutalist railway architecture. Network Rail, the organisers of one-off public tours of the former Birmingham New Street...Read more
Why new legal requirements are necessary for better cyber security in rail
BackgroundFor most of its history, rail has been a sector rather closed to new technologies. In terms of its operation to date, the key aspect emphasised both at legislative and executive level has been security...Read more
Birmingham’s brutalist box bows out
The power signal box on the edge of Birmingham New Street station has finally come to the end of its working life. Last Christmas, 57 years after being commissioned as part of the radical overhaul...Read more