Plant & Equipment

National rail contractor QTS Group hosted its Future of Rail event this week at The Midland Railway in Butterley. Now in its fourth year, and the second time the event has taken place in England, Future of Rail inspires children...

Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems (UK) has reinforced its commitment to engineering excellence and innovation with a significant investment in state-of-the-art tools at its Melksham site, including the Keyence VHX-7000 Digital Microscope and the Laser-Based Elemental Analyzer EA-300 Series. Richard Jackson-Lockyer, head...

Following the successful launch of its SwiftLine Rail Dropper in 2023, Gripple, the leading manufacturer of electrical suspension and catenary systems, has announced Network Rail has approved its latest innovation, the SwiftLine Rail Jumper, aimed at driving efficiency in...

Colas Rail UK has welcomed two new Plasser & Theurer (P&T) 09-4x4/4S tampers into operation The addition of DR75016 and DR75017 demonstrates Colas Rail UK’s continued investment in the latest technology to maintain its position as a key supplier of...

Rail plant giant Quattro Plant Ltd has acquired 130 RRVs in a multi-million pound deal from the former TXM Plant, which fell into administration in January 2024. Quattro engineers inspected each of the 130 RRVs and the company is currently...

Flannery Plant Hire has joined forces with HS2’s construction partner EKFB (a team made up of Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial Construction and BAM Nuttall), to create a new training centre that can upskill local people ready for jobs on HS2...

Whilst the Siemens Mobility Goole train manufacturing plant and supply chain rail village is still being finished, and no train building work is expected to commence until March 2024, one part is already up and running: its component overhaul...

Following the successful trial of the new Clean Air Gas Engine (CAGE) integrated into a solar-battery hybrid power system in an Advante welfare unit on an HS2 construction site from December 2020, HS2 is trialling an OakTec standalone CAGE...

Hitachi Rail is installing its cutting-edge live monitoring solution across Great Western Railway’s high-speed fleet of 93 intercity trains, in a world-first for digital maintenance. This technology will boost fleet availability by over 100 days per year. This will be...

D/Gauge have expanded their services to include dynamic vehicle modelling. Dynamic vehicle modelling is refining the designs of a vehicle, and then applying vehicle dynamics to assess safety, clearance, and risk implications. This service will greatly help with railway...