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Electro-Wind Ltd celebrates 45th Anniversary

January 2024 is Electro-Wind Ltd.’s 45th Anniversary. Whilst the first generation started and developed the business for 20 years, the next generation, their current Directors have been committed to leading the company’s growth for the last 25 years. The company...

Severe weather will mean speed restrictions for Scotland’s Railway

Speed restrictions will be in place on lines across Scotland on Thursday (December 7) to help keep people safe as heavy rain and high winds are set to hit the country. The Met Office has published yellow rain warnings covering...

Railway Mission: Providing a beacon of hope and a lifeline of support

Liam Johnston, Executive Director, Railway Mission In the bustling world of railways, where the heartbeat of transportation connects towns, cities, and industries, the significance of human connection cannot be overlooked. Just as tracks link destinations, the railway industry has embarked...

SPOILed for choice – HS2 reveals third conveyor

HS2 today revealed a new spoil conveyor designed to take around 70,000 lorry journeys off Buckinghamshire’s roads and significantly reduce disruption for local residents during the construction of the UK’s new high speed rail line. The conveyor stretches for 1.3km...

EMR to invest £1 million on new customer information screens

East Midlands Railway (EMR) is rolling out a £1 million project to install nearly 200 new customer information screens, including 25 with interactive functions. The project, which is being rolled out working with suppliers Infotec and Thales, will involve fitting...

Hitachi Rail on-board digital technology to benefit high-speed rail passengers in France and beyond

Hitachi Rail has signed a new framework agreement, worth up to €77 million with SNCF, to provide on-board digital signalling equipment (bi-standard ERTMS/TVM) for the latest generation of TGV (TGV-M) and existing TGV trains that operate across the French...

Engineering In A New Way – Software And Traditional Consultancy – The Best Of Both Worlds – Railway Career Opportunities

The railway community is preparing to congregate again at #Railtex2023 – the industry’s anticipated event that shapes the future of rail in the UK and beyond. Spanning three busy days at the NEC arena in Birmingham, it’s an event...

From office cleaner to HS2 site engineer in just a year

An aspiring engineer from Nigeria is climbing the career ladder and helping to build Britain’s new railway after being handed a one-off opportunity by Bachy Soletanche, a specialist geotechnics contractor working on HS2, with Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering. In just...

RIA publishes its own Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline update for members, on the three-year anniversary of the RNEP

The Railway Industry Association (RIA) has today published its own Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline (RNEP), three years after the last announcement was made public by the UK Government. Created in 2019, the RNEP was billed as a ‘new approach for...

HS2 begins enormous dig in Bucks/Oxon for two of the route’s longest cuttings

HS2 Ltd has begun work on two of the longest cuttings on the new high speed rail project, where the equivalent of more than twenty Royal Albert Hall’s worth of rock and earth must be excavated to provide a...

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