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Listen to this article Garforth station’s new footbridge opened in July, replacing a 190-year-old North Eastern Railway cast iron structure. An additional link span also connects the station to Aberford Road. Work to complete the lifts is now almost complete, and this will give rail passengers a safe, step-free option at the station for the…

Listen to this article The Health and Safety at Work Act gives inspectors powers to issue prohibition and improvement notices. Prohibition notices are issued when it is considered necessary to stop an activity that involves risk of serious personal injury. Such notices must state the cause of this risk and the legislation that has been…

Listen to this article The song ‘We’ll keep a welcome in the hillside’ comes to mind as I take a taxi up a Welsh valley to the miner’s welfare hall at Onllwyn, 15 miles northwest of Swansea. This is the base for my visit to the Global Centre of Rail Excellence (GCRE) which is constructing…

Listen to this article Network Rail recently gave a press briefing in York to provide an update on progress with the East Coast Digital Programme (ECDP) and to outline how this supports the rollout of ETCS across parts of the network during Control Periods 7 and 8, laying the foundations for the longer-term signalling strategy.…

Listen to this article Today, more and more electronic and processor-based equipment is located trackside and on platforms for signalling, telecoms, electrification control, and asset monitoring. Even platforms on small stations may have customer information and video surveillance systems, which need somewhere to locate and protect the expensive equipment. Equipment rooms are expensive, and carefully…

Listen to this article It is perhaps appropriate to look back at the Train Protection and Warning System (TPWS) since this year marks 20 years since the original project to comply with the Railway Safety Regulations 1999 was delivered. It also marks 25 years since those regulations were laid before parliament and since the last…

Listen to this article Rolling stock engineers know that they design brakes to be suitable for the railways on which their trains operate. Signalling engineers know that they design their systems to deliver safe separation between trains. Whilst both disciplines work together with Newton’s laws of motion, there are differences in approach depending on the…

Listen to this article Rail Engineer issue 204 (Sep/Oct 2023) covered Wi-Fi 7 and explained how it will be the future standard for the final wireless connection between the internet and devices. However, Bluetooth is another wireless technology which is used for the exchange of data between devices over short distances. The latest development in…

Listen to this article Biodiversity across Great Britain is on a steep downward trajectory. The State of Nature Report 2023 shows that since 1970 UK species have declined by around 19% on average, and nearly one in six species (16.1%) are now threatened with extinction. Counterintuitively perhaps, the land around the country’s 20,000 miles of…