Listen to this article Last year your writer assisted the Railway Safety and Standards Board of Great Britain with a ...

Rail Engineer reported on the IMechE’s technical tour from Belfast to Brittany. However, this report could only briefly ...

Listen to this article Matt Prosser, 58th Chair of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) Railway Division, gave ...

Listen to this article In September, the IMechE’s ‘Rail Freight 2026’ seminar considered the challenges and opportunities ...

Listen to this article On Thursday 6 August, at 1.40pm, an incident occurred at Network Rail’s Manchester Rail Operating ...

Listen to this article The first digitally-signalled high speed services in the country have moved a step closer with Grand Central’s Class 180 fleet receiving the regulatory approval known as APiS* ...

In 1841 Edward Alfred Cowper, a founder member of the IMechE, devised a warning signal for trains on foggy days. This had a detonating compound packed into a small circular container and was fastened ...

Since the new cross London Elizabeth line opened in May 2022 (the project known as Crossrail), ridership has exceeded expectations. When travelling on one of its trains especially in peak hours, one ...

Several recent articles in the railway press have reported on the closure of three mechanical signalboxes in Cornwall as part of an upgrade scheme. Much has been made of the traditional GW lower ...

Generally, the railway electrification schemes that first emerged in Britain, before the introduction of more recent AC designs, relied on fairly heavy equipment. Multitrack supports were generally of ...

The significant improvement in UK railway safety over the past 25 years has been due to many factors. One, which has not always been widely recognised, is the significant improvements in rail ...

Whilst third rail and other low-level current collection systems add a lot of equipment to a railway at ground level, the general approach to electrification across the world has involved the adoption ...