Technology

New Year 2013 means another confidence-boosting rail industry exhibition to look forward to. Railtex takes centre stage at Earls Court in London from 30 April to 2 May. The show will be opened by Transport Minister Simon Burns MP. Railtex brings together designers, engineers, railway staff, planners and leaders with a full programme of displays [...]

Garrandale has completed work on Network Rail's new Winterisation Train, equipping it with heat cannons to thaw snow and ice on Britain's network. The system, which can operate in temperatures as low as -20 degrees celsius, uses a combination of...

SigAssure UK has begun trading on the Continent with the creation of a new venture to tackle the European rail sector. SigAssure EU, which is registered in Holland, is managed by Taco de Gier and will concentrate its efforts on...

Rail industry supplier SigAssure UK has bought out parts manufacturer Mann Engineering following months of discussions between the two firms. Richard Merrills, managing director of SigAssure UK, said: "This was seen as a strategic purchase ever since benefiting from the...

Mechan is launching a range of energy efficient shunters onto the UK market. The Sheffield-based lifting technology manufacturer has secured a deal to become the sole UK and Ireland supplier of the award-winning Zwiehoff electrically-powered road and rail shunters. The carbon-neutral...

Mechan is launching a range of energy efficient shunters onto the UK market. The Sheffield-based lifting technology manufacturer has secured a deal to become the sole UK and Ireland supplier of the award-winning Zwiehoff electrically-powered road and rail shunters. The carbon-neutral...

Dubbed the world’s most romantic metro system, the Paris Metro has turned to an unromantic factory in Market Harborough to keep its passengers moving for the next three years. RATP, operator of the Metropolitan, has signed a deal to buy wheels for its escalators from Texane in Market Harborough, Leicestershire. Over the next three years, [...]

Railway maintenance teams around the country are being asked to do an increasing amount of work in shorter and shorter timescales as access to the live railway becomes ever more restricted. They therefore need to have versatile and flexible machinery to support them which can do heavy work quickly. Colmar’s T10000FSC is a 37 tonne [...]

UKPN Services is keenly aware that a reliable and progressive rail network is only as good as its electrical infrastructure. Its credentials are well established and include the landmark construction of section 1 and 2 of High Speed One, a £130 million joint venture with Network Rail to upgrade power supplies in the south and [...]

The Liverpool to Manchester Railway, constructed by George Stephenson and opened on the 15 September 1830, is credited with being the world’s first twin-track inter-city passenger railway on which all trains were timetabled and ticketed. Therefore it was only fitting that, in November 2010, the Government should announce that the Liverpool-Manchester route would be one [...]