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The University of Leeds has signed an outline £10 million co-investment agreement with the companies involved in the power supply upgrade of the East Coast Main Line.  The new agreement will enable research into the best and most efficient way...

Across the country, simple footbridges at stations, which cross the tracks from one platform to another, are being replaced as part of the ‘Access for All’ scheme. Typically, the new bridges have a passenger lift for each platform, so...

Some things make my brain hurt: Channel Four’s Naked Attraction, all Apple products, the cost of HS2. But, most recently, I’ve found myself befuddled by a scientist’s assertion that we are constantly being rained upon by subatomic particles which...

It’s an inescapable reality that life is unpredictable; generally, though, its ups and downs impact uniquely on each individual. Yes, recessions hit periodically and make their presence felt broadly, but it’s many decades since an event caused the world...

It seems a world away. December 2019 was so uncomplicated, with the agonies of Christmas shopping being just one of the rather minor issues to cope with. It was back in December that avid readers of the Rail Engineer...

For too long, power supplies have been treated as an after-thought to the main design project. It is when all the other features and functions, as well as aesthetics, are finalised that the power supply is specified, and then...

The imperative to decarbonise the railway has been the subject of various reports, conferences, and research grants, although, in reality, little new operational hardware has been produced to meet this challenge since Jo Johnson’s call to remove diesels in...

Signalling failures have always had the ability to cause delay to train services and, whilst modern signalling technology is designed to be more reliable, when failures do occur they can be much more significant as the systems are complex,...

Innovation seems to be the latest buzz word. Recent conferences and seminars, as reported in Rail Engineer, have focussed very much on this theme, often coupling it with ‘The Digital Railway’. Having listened to a recent offering by Peloton,...

In a signalling system with lineside signals and fitted with an Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system, a brake application will automatically be applied if a train is going too fast, thereby protecting the train from passing signals at danger....