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GTR: Training the next generation

29 January 2019Top image: John Tomlin and Tim Wells in the simulator suite In December, RTM’s Jack Donnelly (pictured) paid a visit to Govia Thameslink Railway’s (GTR’s) training facilities across London. Here, he reports on the state-of...

RICS: Unlocking rail's data potential

29 January 2019Anil Sawhney, director of the infrastructure sector for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), discusses standardising data to meet the rail industry’s future challenges of an urbanised Britain. Ongoing delays that result in s...

ORBIS: Turning track data into intelligence

22 January 2019Track engineer Dan Collins explains how an app and an iPad are transforming track maintenance in Network Rail’s Western route. Carrying 2,200 train services a day, an average of 208 freight trains and 92 million passenger journeys a year, N...

Siemens Deep Tube: Keeping London moving

22 January 2019Paul Baines, sales director for rolling stock at Siemens Mobility Ltd, expands on the many benefits of the £1.5bn Deep Tube rolling stock contract award. In November, Siemens Mobility Ltd was awarded a £1.5bn contract by London Underg...

Guarding against the theft of survey equipment

22 January 2019The high value of survey equipment used to collect geospatial data on the railways is increasingly attractive to opportunistic criminals. The Survey Association (TSA) is leading the fightback against the thieves, as manager Rachel Tyrrell explains...

Network Rail & Innovate UK: Ready for the future

15 January 2019As part of its Open for Business programme, Network Rail recently teamed up with Innovate UK to give businesses a chance to win a share of £300,000 for projects that can help automate rail planning. Kelvin Davies, innovation lead for rail at...

ORR: Defining an 'efficient' railway

15 January 2019Ahead of CP6, Howard Taylor, cost manager of railway planning and performance at the ORR, dives deep into the regulator’s assessment of what an ‘efficient’ Network Rail means in practice. For most of 2018, a great many people at...

Repoint: revolutionising track switch

15 January 2019Sam Bemment, senior R&D engineer at Loughborough University, brings us an update on the Repoint project – a scheme which has transformed the track switch as we know it. In the August/September issue of RTM, I presented the history of an...

CP6: Room for improvement

15 January 2019Darren Caplan, chief executive of the Railway Industry Association (RIA), assesses Network Rail’s confirmed spending plans for CP6. The 31 October may be more popularly known as Halloween, but in the rail industry all eyes were on the ORR a...

Night Tube: The twilight economy

27 November 2018Dr David Lutton, executive director of economy and tax at London First, argues that the capital’s night-time economy is just starting its journey. London boasts some of the best nightlife in the world, with its theatres, bars, and restauran...

Passenger safety: Respect the edge

27 November 2018Claire Coward, communications lead at the RSSB, discusses her organisation’s latest passenger safety campaign. Incidents at the platform train interface (PTI) account for almost half of the total passenger fatality risk on the mainline rail...

Monitoring the performance of earthworks

27 November 2018Dr Joel Smethurst, associate professor in geotechnical engineering, and Professor William Powrie, professor of geotechnical engineering, both of the University of Southampton, discuss the work and research that’s helped the rail sector in it...

Introducing iPort

20 November 2018Steve Freeman, managing director of iPort Rail, introduces the UK’s newest inland freight terminal. The UK’s newest inland rail freight terminal for 10 years – iPort Rail – is now open and operational. It is another huge...

Maintaining light rail

20 November 2018Dr Adam Bevan, Professor Paul Allen and Professor Jay Jaiswal, of the Institute of Railway Research, take a look at new rail asset management techniques in light-rail systems. The defining characteristics of light-rail systems – such as emb...

dessan Design in the digital railway

20 November 2018Denise Watkins, business development manager at Hitachi Information Control Systems Europe (HICSE), discusses her organisation’s exciting new railway signalling design tool, dessan Design. HICSE may appear to be a relatively young organisat...