Industrial News
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Listen to this article The collision at Fisherton Tunnel, Salisbury in October 2021 was primarily caused by poor wheel/rail adhesion. That said, RAIB’s investigation pointed to numerous other factors arising from management and communication within and between organisations in the industry, as well as autumn leaf fall management and treatment. One issue was knowledge of…
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Listen to this article Nigel Keightly The Sekisui Chemical Company has manufactured synthetic wooden products made from Fibre-reinforced Foamed Urethane (FFU) since 1980. First introduced on Japanese Railways 44 years ago, early installations of the product are still performing to specification. FFU is now widely used on railway infrastructure in 33 countries to support track…
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Listen to this article Bob Clarke In 1985, British Rail was moving to a market/business led structure in which sector managers had a budgetary control and were required to grow their business. For the Inter-City sector, journey time improvements were high on the agenda. Electrification of the East Coast Main Line (ECML) was underway with…
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Listen to this article Rail Engineer has reported widely on Siemens Mobility’s Rail Village in Goole, East Yorkshire, home to its Train Manufacturing Factory, Component Facility, Logistics Centre warehousing facility, and RaisE business centre. The state-of-the-art facility is playing a key role in producing the next generation of UK trains, building the highly anticipated new…
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Listen to this article Back in September 2012 (Issue 95), Rail Engineer carried a feature on cross-industry innovation which considered the potential for the rail industry to adopt technologies developed for the automotive industry, such as lightweighting. This was a recurring theme at various events such as the 2017 Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ Stephenson conference.…
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Listen to this article Embedded rail is used on street-running tramways. The rail section used generally includes effectively a continuous checkrail (known as the keeper) and enables a clear boundary between the paved road surface and the tram running rail. Grooved rail is far from standardised. Twenty-six rail sections are defined in EuroNorms and seven…
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Listen to this article The number of UK rail workers suffering serious injuries is increasing. Yes, the railways are inherently dangerous, but health and safety has never been higher on the agenda, so why are the figures not falling? In September, the Office of Road and Rail (ORR) released its 2024 Rail Safety Report. It…
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Celera Motion, a Novanta company has updated its Aura precision rotary and linear optical encoder range with a new packaged version. The new Aura P is presented in a connection-ready PCBA (printed circuit board assembly), enabling fast and easy OEM integration. The encoder features the same high precision and repeatability performance as the existing Aura…
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Listen to this article The Railway Industry Association (RIA) is continuing its regional seminars to encourage innovation around the UK, holding its latest event in September covering the South of England and asking whether improved services might result from the introduction of new and imaginative thinking. The venue for this event was the Ricardo Innovation…
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Listen to this article Iain Rae is the Railway Division (RD) chair for 2024/25. He started his traditional tour of RD Centres in Swindon in early September, a long way from his home in Scotland. He is the fifty-sixth chair and his theme is about diversity, inclusion and the skills gap in the industry, caused,…
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