Technology

Virtual Reality and real time monitoring by sensors built into HS2’s infrastructure including rails, bridges and overhead power lines will help make Britain’s new high speed rail network one of the world’s most reliable railways. Detailed designs being prepared by...

This Christmas, Leeds station received the gift of fast, free and unlimited WiFi as passengers become the latest to benefit from Network Rail’s nationwide roll-out. Network Rail plans to transform the digital experience – keeping passengers seamlessly connected throughout their...

The University of Birmingham’s Centre for Railway Research and Education (BCRRE) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with leading rolling stock and transport company, Rock Rail, establishing a strategic partnership on addressing railway rolling stock cyber security. Rock has invested...

Rapid-charger for Very Light Rail awarded Engineering and Technology Innovation Award in new category. The world’s first rapid battery charger for Very Light Rail yesterday (25 November 2021) won an Engineering and Technology Innovation Award in the Future Mobility category. Judges...

Teaming up for a future-proof railway in UK. A combination of financial support and the possibility to jump right into practice are exactly what innovative ideas need to grow strong in the short time. To prepare such ground, Network Rail,...

PanMon system provides ‘100%’ coverage of pantographs operating on key routes. Ricardo has completed the roll out of PanMon, a pantograph condition monitoring system, at selected locations on Scotland’s mainline rail network. The units have been installed on some of Scotland’s...

A new low-emission, lightweight train is being demonstrated in Ironbridge, with the hope of reopening disused railway lines and extending existing networks. It is fitting, then, that this is happening just a stone’s throw from the place where the...

Passengers at Birmingham New Street station can now get free and unlimited WiFi that is fast enough to support video calls and streaming. Network Rail’s upgraded service uses the latest technology so passengers can connect multiple devices without having to...

New polling commissioned by evo-rail, a UK-based rail technology company which was formed out of First Group, has revealed that 65% of younger people (18-34 year-olds) view internet on trains as important, and 29% would be more likely to...

Network Rail and Vivarail today announced that Vivarail’s next-generation battery train will be launched at COP26 and will run daily services throughout the international climate change conference. This zero-emission train uses new batteries, developed by Vivarail, to combine maximum range...