Environment

Social certification measures a train’s impact from manufacturing and supply chain to end-of-life management and recycling Hitachi Rail is the first manufacturer in the world to be able to track not just the environmental impacts of its products, but also...

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...

New GPS tracking on Northern trains has been used successfully to make autumn conditions even safer by flagging leaf fall hotspots.  Fallen leaves can cause significant disruption to the network. Leaves stick to damp rails and passing trains compress them...

Earlier this month the new Dawlish sea wall faced its toughest test yet as devastating wind and waves whipped the south west, withstanding both and winning two engineering awards just days later. Five metre waves at high tide. Wind speeds...

Join the upcoming webinar hosted by Dom Kisz (Head of Product Management at Senceive). Register now: The Digital Interface Node: Transform your data collection from manual to automated sampling. Wednesday 29th November 2023 at 3pm GMT (10am EST) In this 30 minute...

The Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) has today (Tuesday 14 November) launched the Sustainable Rail Blueprint, a new framework to support the rail industry in Great Britain make efficient progress on environmental and social sustainability challenges. Travelling by rail...

A successful trial of a ground-breaking digital measuring system for concrete has led to a roll-out across multiple HS2 sites, cutting carbon and driving efficiencies on the construction project. VERIFI® is a pioneering technology that enables real-time monitoring, measurement, and...

Tests are underway by rail engineers to find out how a mystery orange coloured water is entering a railway tunnel on the Cumbrian Coast line. The tunnel, which takes trains one kilometre under ground between Corkickle and Whitehaven, sometimes floods. To...

Train services in the Market Harborough area are disrupted as Network Rail undertakes urgent repair work to the railway line through Braybrooke. Network Rail teams have been monitoring a stretch of track in the area for several weeks, as part...

ScotRail services between the Central Belt and Aberdeen and Inverness will return to normal from today (Monday 30 October) following a weekend of heavy rain. A Met Office yellow weather warning had been in place across North East Scotland since...