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Remember the old “clackety-clack, clackety clack” as trains moved around the network?  If you are one of our younger readers, you might not. The noise came from the train’s wheels passing over the bolted joints between rails.  Every 60 feet. And with two axles/wheelsets on each bogie, and two bogies...

The ORR (Office of Rail and Road) has published its latest Network Rail performance statistics, and in part they make sorry reading. Network Rail has agreed targets to meet for CP5, which runs from 1 April 2014 until 31 March 2019. These are to make sure it delivers value for...

The Peli 9490 LED is the latest addition to the Trackside Area lighting range. Designed as portable lighting, the 9490 offers silent, rechargeable LED light with no trailing cables. The 9490 features a 10-LED head that extends above 1.8 metres...

When complete, Crossrail will be a three-legged railway. The western leg will emerge from under London at the Royal Oak portal and run out as far as Reading with a connection off to Heathrow. To the North East, the portal is at Pudding Mill Lane and the Crossrail route will...

It may come as a surprise, but London Underground doesn’t have the only underground railway network in the nation’s capital. Running directly under the feet of millions of unsuspecting Londoners and passing many of the city’s most recognisable landmarks, the Post Office Underground Railway – Mail Rail – ran between 1927...

It is a bright and breezy day in southwest Japan. A group of people, some wearing overalls and some in suits, have gathered before an open-fronted red-and-white striped tent. Alongside, ...
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Bombardier is now well into the delivery phase of its order for 29 four-car Electrostar trains for the new Govia Thameslink franchise.

Around half of the ordered trains ...
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Two recent train launches represented both the end of one era and the start of another. Siemens Desiro trains have been running in the UK since 2003. The first Class 360 ...
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A party from Nottingham’s twin city of Karlsruhe joined the first group of people to cross onto the Karlsruhe Friendship Bridge over Nottingham Station recently.

The Oberbürgermeister of Karlsruhe, Dr ...
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Canterbury, Lourdes, Glastonbury, Santiago de Compostela and Berlin. What do they have in common? All are places of pilgrimage. In the case of Berlin, 125,000 people assemble in one small ...
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