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

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

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 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 ...

Train protection and level crossing control in Ireland were two of the topics covered in the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE) technical weekend held in Dublin in May. Both train ...

Rolling stock engineers know that they design brakes to be suitable for the railways on which their trains operate. Signalling engineers know that they design their systems to deliver safe separation ...

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 ...

Twenty years ago, on 17 October 2000, a train derailed just south of Hatfield station while travelling at around 115mph. Four people died, 70 were injured. The accident was caused by rolling-contact ...