The Rail Engineer Magazine

When it was decided that one of London Underground’s most critical outposts was to be updated, it needed reliable generators to power the accommodation facilities for an on-site workforce numbering 150. Located in north-west London, Neasden Depot is the...

Privatisation has brought many benefits to our industry - new trains, more frequent services, brighter stations, additional routes, competitive ticketing, increased freight traffic - but the stark reality is that the railway now costs much more to the taxpayer...

Engineers constructing the new Airdrie-Bathgate line - what will soon become the longest domestic passenger railway to be built in the UK for a century - have made extensive use of retaining wall technology from geotechnical and construction specialists...

Most European railways provided track-to-train radio systems during the latter part of the 20th century. Many were based upon the UIC (Union Internationale Chemin de Fers) Spec 751-3, prepared as an intended standard for all train radio systems across...

Work has begun on the £850 million redevelopment of the Reading station area. Over a ten-day period this Christmas, the workforce completed the first stage of their project, working from Christmas Eve until 4th January. The station itself was...

Sometimes only made-to-measure will do. Just ask the project team that’s been exercising its logistical dexterity for the past six months to resolve the failings of a landmark Yorkshire bridge. Time and tide have been overcome, bringing operational benefits...

Thanks to its Bard, Stratford-upon-Avon is one of the UK’s greatest tourist attractions and yet, until relatively recently, it had few direct rail services from the capital and only a slow hourly stopping service connecting it with Birmingham. The...

The UK has at last joined the ERTMS club. With its partial commissioning of the Cambrian line, Britain has reached a milestone in the future of rail signalling. Eventually, ERTMS (or more correctly ETCS - European Train Control System)...

What a difference two years makes! As the Airdrie-Bathgate project nears completion, it has transformed the landscape along its route. Before starting its contract to lay track and install the overhead line equipment back in October 2008, Balfour Beatty...