“London’s congestion charge is set to be extended under new plans from Mayor Sadiq Khan, who wants to charge the most heavily polluting cars and vans a daily fee of £12.50 to enter the city …
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Siemens’ new platform to showcase US digital railway (Smart Rail World)
Siemens is launching a Digital Rail Service operation in the US. The business will use intelligent sensors and advanced software platforms to put intelligence behind billions of data points on the country’s rail network. Siemens …
Continue readingSeattle LRT to run on 100% clean energy by 2019 (Smart Rail World)
“The public transit agency serving the Seattle metropolitan area has announced this week that it has executed an innovative 10-year agreement with Puget Sound Energy (PSE) that will allow Link trains to run on 100 …
Continue readingFriday Reads – April 21, 2017
This is the next installment of our weekly Friday Reads post – listing the links and articles we’ve been reading at LR Towers. Be sure to also check out our Industry Links posts, updated every weekday, with the latest developments in technology, operations, frameworks, policy and best-practices.
Continue readingAustria takes over DB sleeper train network (Railway Gazette)
Austrian national rail operator ÖBB has agreed with Deutsche Bahn to take over part of the German operator’s network of overnight trains from the timetable change on December 11. DB had stated earlier this year …
Continue readingDriverless freight train research (Smart Rail World)
“Transport researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have published their vision of the ‘freight train of the future’ – the NGT CARGO. This concept has a high level …
Continue readingGate line throughput challenge (Rail Engineer)
“Gate line barriers are now a norm at all but the most rural stations in the UK, and this is the situation in many other developed countries. Experience showed that open-access stations led to a …
Continue readingD-Train to carry passengers to rail conference (Rail Magazine)
Visitors to Rail Live 21-22 June 2017 will be able to travel by train right to the show, courtesy of Vivarail’s D-Train. Passenger shuttles will run between Honeybourne station and a special platform inside the …
Continue readingFriday Reads – April 14, 2017
This is the next installment of our weekly Friday Reads post – listing the links and articles we’ve been reading at LR Towers. Be sure to also check out our Industry Links posts, updated every …
Continue readingTrain battery rapid charging (Rail Engineer)
“As the rail industry explores the use of battery-powered trains, there comes a need to consider how traction batteries are recharged and generally managed. Battery-powered trains are not new, there were various early examples. Experiments …
Continue readingHendy – Rail industry must relate to outside world (Rail Technology)
“The railway must be adaptable, relatable and must improve its planning processes in order to grow wider economic growth in the future, a report by the Independent Transport Commission (ITC) backed by Network Rail chair …
Continue readingHS2 seeks new station developers (Railway Technology)
“UK’s High Speed Two (HS2) has published details of contract opportunities for architects, designers and developers interested in the development of four new stations on the London to Birmingham high-speed railway line. The winning bidders …
Continue readingBombardier, Siemens talks to merge train operations (National Post)
“Siemens AG and Bombardier Inc. are in talks to combine their train operations, people familiar with the matter said, potentially creating a business that could better compete with rising competition from China. The proposed joint …
Continue readingDfT trials rail fare simplification (Railway Technology)
What’s in store for the UK’s big rail fare shake-up “The Department for Transport recently announced far-reaching changes to UK rail fares in an attempt to make it easier for passengers to buy the cheapest …
Continue readingLU orders Chinese wagons (Metro Report)
“Transport for London has awarded the CRRC Shandong subsidiary of Chinese rolling stock conglomerate CRRC a contract to supply wagons to support track renewal and maintenance activities on the London Underground network. The order confirmed …
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