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Realising rail ambitions in the Gulf
How do you drill a rail tunnel through lava? No, it’s not a metaphor or an idea concocted by some sociopathic Bond villain, it’s a genuine challenge that engineers delivering a new metro system in the...
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The Harbury slip
It must have been a great sense of relief for everyone when Network Rail announced on Friday 13 March, three weeks earlier than the expected date, that the line between Leamington Spa and Banbury was...
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Thameslink testing and stabling
The Thameslink programme is going well. A complex project to upgrade the existing route through the centre of London while also adding new London Bridge, which is currently destinations, disruption was...
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LU Northern line goes CBTC
Much has been written to explain the operation and benefits of Communications Based Train Control (CBTC). By default, such technology has become associated with modern metro operations around the...
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Boring, boring, boring
Hogging the limelight is something Crossrail is very good at. And so it should be: successfully threading a new railway through the capital’s subterranean clutter – to a few millimetres’ tolerance and...
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Crossrail’s South East Section
When complete, Crossrail will be a three-legged railway. The western leg will emerge from under London at the Royal Oak portal and run out as far as Reading with a connection off to Heathrow. To the...
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Completing the GNGE
The 08:55, departing from Platform 1 at Peterborough on 9 March, was a special service. On board were Network Rail route director Phil Verster, project director Neil Lindley and a selection of local...
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Norway to go Nationwide ERTMS
Like many other countries, Norway has a problem with ageing signalling equipment and needs to undertake modernisation. The infrastructure manager, Jernbaneverket, has taken the decision to adopt ERTMS...
View ArticleWhifflet Electrification – A RACE to the finish
The Whifflet line. A Cinderella railway dependant on DMU rolling stock despite being surrounded by electrified railways. The advantages of electrification – a cleaner, faster, quieter and more reliable...
View ArticleVideo: Drone’s eye view of Crossrail tunnels
Video footage of a drone exploring the now-completed Crossrail tunnels.
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Keeping busy!
UK Power Networks Services (UKPN Services) is an operating division of one of the UK’s leading electricity distribution network operators (DNOs), UK Power Networks, itself owned by the multi-national,...
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Nîmes-Montpellier Bypass – Vive les differences
The sky is a cloudless blue. The sunlight is strong – really strong – reflecting off the baked dry earth. It makes any Brit, used to higher latitudes, squint through watering eyes, reach for the...
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Birmingham New Street – Final push
When New Street’s £600 million overhaul is completed in solution from the same computer September, passengers alighting in Birmingham will discover a modelling software used to plan much brighter,...
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The train now arriving
Yorkshire is a county blessed with many great things, not least wrinkled stockings and the Chuckle Brothers. It also enjoys some uniquely characterful place names: Upperthong, Mankinholes, Wetwang,...
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What you see… Is not necessarily what you get
It must have been a fairly straightforward remit. Nothing to trouble late-Victorian engineers. A river crossing. Not that wide. Not too high above the water either. What would be the natural solution...
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Winchburgh’s 44-day blockade
A legacy of the rapid early growth of Britain’s railway network is that the UK has one of the world’s most restrictive loading gauges. As a result, typically half of the cost of British electrification...
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Easing the flow
It’s not often that we have the pleasure of reporting on the new construction of a main line railway in England. But, in the heart of the country, a 4km stretch of brand new double track electrified...
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Developments in Auckland
The city of Auckland, home to the world’s largest Polynesian population and known to the Maori as Tamaki Makaurau, is the biggest in New Zealand. Currently about the same size as Birmingham in the UK,...
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Borders Railway complete
On 6 September 2015, passenger trains will run between Edinburgh and Galashiels for the first time since the 157 kilometre Waverley route from Edinburgh to Carlisle closed in January 1969. At 49...
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End of the line for Elizabeth!
Rail Engineer has visited the new Crossrail Farringdon station site before (issue 118, August 2014) and has looked at the working of the tunnel boring machines (TBMs). However, the latest visit to...
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