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Listen to this article The Permanent Way Institution’s annual electrification conference was attended by around 150 delegates and was opened by its president, Mona Sihota. While there remains uncertainty about future electrification, both the Midland Mainline and the Transpennine Route upgrades are well underway, and existing electrification assets (which power around 80% of UK rail…
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Listen to this article In 2009, the Great Western Electrification Programme (GWEP) was estimated to cost £1 billion. By 2015 the cost had risen to £2.8 billion. As a result, the programme was cut-back in 2017 with no electrification to Oxford, Bristol, or Swansea. This also led to a negative government perception of rail electrification…
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Listen to this article At the RSSB sponsored Vehicle/Track System Interface Committee seminar, RSSB’s Dr David Griffin and University of Huddersfield’s Dr Philip Shackleton explored how the industry might explore additional measures for the guidance of derailed trains. This work was commissioned to follow up a recommendation from the RAIB investigation into the Carmont accident…
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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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Epax 4020TGN can help improve muscle contractile function and post-injury muscle recovery, a pilot study has found. The pre-clinical in vivo and in vitro research indicates that Epax’s highly concentrated, marine-derived triglyceride oil offers potential benefits for healthy aging and sports recovery. Researchers at the University of South Florida carried out an eight-week dietary intervention…
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Olam Food Ingredients is stepping up its efforts to combat deforestation and promote regenerative agriculture by establishing seven landscape collaborations and implementing regenerative agriculture on more than a million hectares by 2030. These new targets align with ofi’s company-wide Choices for Change strategy and will be further boosted by the cocoa business’ tree carbon stock…
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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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