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Squeezing more from the tube
Anyone strap hanging on a crowded Victoria line train could be forgiven for not believing that, a few months ago, its upgrade gave a 21% increase in passenger capacity. The reality is that the various challenging capacity improvement projects being undertaken by London Underground (LU) barely keep pace with London’s insatiable demand for tube travel....CAF trams for Midland Metro Expansion Project
It is now approximately a year since Balfour Beatty won the contract from Centro to extend the Midland Metro light rail line by 1.3 km through central Birmingham as part of a £128 million project to increase capacity. A general outline of the extension, and its route down Corporation Street to Stephenson Street and New...More from the top
Last month, Network Rail chief executive Sir David Higgins described how he approached his first few weeks in the rail industry. In this second part he looks at the longer term issues facing the industry but, first of all, he reflects on a topic that, regardless of organisational structure, nobody can ignore. An area which...The future of GSM-R and its possible replacement
GSM-R (Global System for Mobile – Railways) is now well established as the radio system of choice for track- to-train voice communication in Europe and many countries beyond. A comprehensive description of the system was given in issue 48 of The Rail Engineer (October 2008). It is also a constituent part of ERTMS (European Rail...Inspiring Innovation
The 177 delegates attending the fifth Railway Industry Association’s (RIA) Technology and Innovation Conference were treated, amongst other things, to a mix of success stories, blue sky thinking and guidance on the current maze of technology initiatives. With such wide ranging topics there was certainly a buzz about the conference. Rail innovation is certainly a...A bad wire day
A ‘bad hair day’ – a short phrase known to many that suggests that everything that can go wrong does go wrong. It hasn’t been in common usage for very long. It didn’t exist before about 1988 but then it rapidly inveigled itself into the US vocabulary followed soon after by global adoption. All this,...New rails in the desert
Saudi Arabia and the UAE. This plan is being co-ordinated by the Arab Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) whose member states are Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE. In 2009, Federal Law No 2 provided the mandate to construct and operat...Sun, sea and rail bridges at St Bees
Getting wet on the beach – sounds like a happy recollection of Things We Did Last Summer. Countless songs and movies tell us that sun, sea and sand is the way if you’re California Dreamin’ or just Surfin’ USA. However, for most of the year, in this country we approach the water with more caution...Trams to New Street
Next month will see the opening of the new section of concourse at Birmingham New Street station. This will be the first major public milestone in the Birmingham Gateway project, the progress of which THE RAIL ENGINEER has covered for the last few year...Keeping water out
Elsewhere in this issue, the consequences of having too much water on track or within embankments are discussed. However, water is also a problem for structures engineers. Water getting into bridge decks, or leaking down into tunnels, can cause major d...
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