The engineers delivering on the Cardiff Area Signalling Renewals Project used an innovative ‘Lego wall’ to provide a solid barrier between open lines and those lines being replaced, avoiding the need for a disruptive all-line …
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Two new European night train lines launched (RailwayNews)
Two new Nightjet lines are launching in Europe, providing night-time rail travel between Vienna – Munich – Paris and Zurich – Cologne – Amsterdam. OEBB Nightjet train© OEBB First announced in October, the new lines …
Continue readingAutonomous rail trial in bad winter weather (IntlRailJ)
Successful completion of 18-month autonomous technology trial could herald next step for driver assistance equipment. A collaboration of Thales, Invision AI and Metrolinx have confirmed the successful completion of an 18-month WinterTech Program trial in …
Continue readingNew German government to invest in rail before roads (RailFreight)
The new German government coalition will invest “considerably more in the railways than in the roads”. The SPD, Greens and FDP presented their plans in a coalition agreement on Wednesday, including plans to lower infrastructure …
Continue readingNext generation traction batteries (T&UT)
In the wake of COP26, key stakeholders in the rail industry are coming under increasing pressure to employ more sustainable ways of providing traction power. According to the UNIFE (Union des Industries Ferroviaires Européennes) association of …
Continue readingThe different types of tunnel boring machines (Forbes)
Tunnel boring machines are a key tool in urban development, which makes them anything but boring. This may be because I am fascinated with subterranean infrastructure, but I feel like tunnels have been all over …
Continue readingBeginners Guide to buying trains (Midnight-Trains)
Starting this week, we’ll take you behind the scenes of Midnight Trains HQ. And so why not start from the very top? Right now we’re going to explain how exactly we’re going about buying our trains. Without …
Continue readingBattery price declines slowing down (BloombergGreen)
BloombergNEF has just published the 2021 battery price survey, one of the most important pieces of research we carry out annually. The key takeaway: On a volume-weighted average basis across the battery industry, prices fell …
Continue readingEfficiency & the decline of US freight railroads (HomeSignal)
Over the last two years, the crisis of America’s supply chains, the push to expand public passenger rail service, and the urgency of the climate crisis have put America’s freight railroads in the limelight. These …
Continue readingHow technology can streamline rail procedures (MediaRail)
There is a ‘natural’ tendency to see railway technology as backward, inbred and both resistant and slow to adopt innovations from other industries. In fact, beyond technology, rail however must make a qualitative leap by …
Continue readingSiC semiconductor trial reduces tram noise & energy (Railway-News)
Siemens Mobility and Stadtwerke München have presented the results of a one-year test trialling silicone carbide (SiC) semiconductor technology in an Avenio tram. During the test phase, the vehicle travelled 65,000km. The test, a joint …
Continue readingJapan launches road-rail bus service (Coach&Bus)
Billed as ‘the world’s first operational dual-mode vehicle’, the ASA Seaside Railway Corporation in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, is set to launch a new vehicle into service on 25 December. The vehicle is described as ‘essentially …
Continue reading4G deal signed for Tube tunnels & stations (IanVisits)
The company rolling out mobile phone coverage on the London Underground has signed its first two commercial contracts, with Three and EE. Although Wi-Fi coverage is available in the stations for all networks except Vodafone, and …
Continue readingLA Metro trialing contactless hot gas tunneling (Wired)
IN THE 1970S, US government researchers imagined digging through rock with a nuclear-powered tunneling machine. They thought this machinery could change the world by traveling through the Earth’s upper mantle like a submarine moves through water, …
Continue readingTrain windows as information displays (GlobalRailway)
With SmartMMI technology, public transport passengers can receive up-to-date information about their journeys – directly on their adjacent train window. SmartWindows is an intelligent data integration system using situational filtering and context-based visualisation of information. …
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