This year’s event was the tenth annual Safety Summit. Nonetheless a number of themes featured in the first Safety Summit are evidently still with us. This year’s host was Nicola Uijen who is the HSQE director for Network Rail’s...

First staged in 1994, Infrarail is firmly established as Britain’s leading showcase for every aspect of railway infrastructure, technology and expertise, with a strong reputation for attracting visiting managers, engineers and buyers at the highest level.

Work is to begin on India's first high-speed rail project - known as the Indian Bullet Train - thanks to financial and technical support from Japan.

MTR has completed tracklaying along the 11-kilometre Tai Wai to Hung Hom Section of the Shatin to Central Link (SCL) rail project. The milestone marks the competion of tracklaying on the East West Corridor and keeps the line on course to open...

Indian firm Adani will build a 388km standard gauge coal railway in Central Queensland, Australia, after giving the green light for the Carmichael coal mine. Adani chairman Gautam Adani said it was an historic day for Adani, for regional Queensland, and for Indian...

It’s 31 March 2017. At 05:51, train 2H81 departs, one minute late, from Platform 6 at Carlisle. Nothing remarkable in that, you might think, and anyway, what’s a minute between friends? This, though, was a Northern service to Leeds, travelling via the Settle and Carlisle route. Anyone turning up at Platform 6 to catch this […]

During the 1980s, the information technology revolution transformed the global economy, requiring whole sectors to re-model how they operated and enabling organisations to change how they delivered products and services. Today, a similar technical revolution is emerging that once again presents organisations with the opportunity to reshape how they do business. This advancement in technology […]

‘It’s a bit like RoboCop or Minority Report’ said Rav Kugananthan, a project engineer working at Crossrail’s Liverpool Street station, as he squeezed his head into one of the project’s most radical innovations. Although still at the development stage, the smart helmet Rav was modelling provided a glimpse into what will very likely be a […]

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Early December is the traditional time for the Rail Exec Club, the railway industry’s leading networking organisation for executives and professionals, to hold its Gala Dinner. Which is why representatives from 102 organisations from around the industry gathered at Derby’s iconic Roundhouse a few weeks before Christmas. Everyone was there, directors and managers from four […]

The railways are well known for keeping old technology going. With the cost of new trains, and a design life of around 40 years, it’s not surprising that some aren’t in the first flush of youth. And that doesn’t just apply...