
Listen to this article Beaulieu Park is a new station being built on the Great Eastern mainline northeast of Chelmsford city centre adjacent to junction 19 of the A12, the Boreham interchange. This will be the first new station on the Great Eastern mainline for over 100 years. The railway is busy with longer distance…

Alcoholic beer production in the EU decreased by 5% (-1.7bn litres), according to Eurostat. When it comes to non-alcoholic beer there was an increase of 13.5% compared with 2022 (+0.2bn litres). In 2023, EU countries produced 32.5bn litres of beer containing alcohol and 1.8bn litres of beer with less than 0.5% alcohol or with no…

Listen to this article Rail Engineer’s sister magazine RailStaff recently reported on 20 years of Darwin, the heart of all customer train information and one of the most critical systems serving the industry. Darwin is maintained and continually improved by Rail Delivery Group (RDG) in partnership with Hitachi Rail, and in this article Rail Engineer…

Listen to this article In the connected world we all live in, Wi-Fi has become one of the main technologies for wireless short haul and indoor communications. However, a Wi-Fi wireless protocol that is yet to receive widescale adoption is Wi-Fi HaLow (pronounced halo). This uses 900MHz Radio Frequency (RF) bands to provide longer range,…

Image: Enea Operator Enea Operator has developed an algorithm drawing on smart meters and other data to support the planning of decisions regarding network investments. The algorithm, which was developed with experts from the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Centre, combines the smart meter data with other data such as from the SCADA system to provide…

Listen to this article Innovation continues to be one of the rail industry’s buzz words but can be used in many contexts. Some of these may be a plea for new thinking to solve a particular problem; a product or service that could improve a traditional system or work method; blue sky thinking that might…

The Science Based Target’s initiative (SBTi) has approved Bakkavor Group’s suite of net-zero science-based targets. The announcement follows the group reporting an operational emissions reduction of 23.2% in just two years, a significant achievement given that sale volumes have increased over the same period. The targets cover all scopes including near-term, long-term and FLAG targets,…

The Science Based Target’s initiative (SBTi) has approved Bakkavor Group’s suite of net-zero science-based targets. The announcement follows the group reporting an operational emissions reduction of 23.2% in just two years, a significant achievement given that sale volumes have increased over the same period. The targets cover all scopes including near-term, long-term and FLAG targets,…

ZESTRON, the leading global provider of high-precision cleaning products, services, and training solutions in the electronics manufacturing and semiconductor industries, is pleased to announce an upcoming webinar titled “Optimizing Removal of Conformal Coating Residues: Efficient, Cost-effective, and Safe Methods.” This educational session will be held on August 22, 2024, at 2:00 PM EDT and will…