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WEB5 days ago — Rail Live 2025. Attend the UK's largest and only immersive rail exhibition. Join 6000+ rail professionals at Rail Live to share learning and build successful networks. Venue: Porterbrook’s Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre | ///roofer.wished.represent. Britain's biggest-selling modern railway magazine. Bringing the news, comment and ...
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WEBFunds to speed up EU border checks. The government is providing £3.5 million each to Eurotunnel at Folkestone and Eurostar at St Pancras, to prepare for the EU’s new digital Entry/Exit System which is due to start on November 10. News.
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WEB6 days ago — Rail Live 2025. Attend the UK's largest and only immersive rail exhibition. Join 6000+ rail professionals at Rail Live to share learning and build successful networks. Venue: Porterbrook’s Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre | ///roofer.wished.represent. Britain's biggest-selling modern railway magazine. Bringing the news, comment and ...
New Tube train factory opens in Yorkshire - railmagazine.com
WEB4 days ago — The UK’s newest train factory was officially opened on 3 October in East Yorkshire. The Secretary of State for Transport, Louise Haigh, and the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, attended the opening of Siemens Mobility’s Goole Train Manufacturing Facility, which will assemble new trains for London Underground’s Piccadilly Line – the first deep level Tube trains to have air-conditioning.
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WEBSep 27, 2024 — Rail Live 2025. Attend the UK's largest and only immersive rail exhibition. Join 6000+ rail professionals at Rail Live to share learning and build successful networks. Britain's biggest-selling modern railway magazine. Bringing the news, comment and analysis from the rail industry.
How artificial intelligence will make our railway faster and greener
WEBJan 31, 2024 — Cara Murphy, practice director, rail consulting for Atkins shows how AI will lead to a major step change in the rail industry. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a phrase that conjures multiple reactions: excitement about the opportunities it makes available; fear of overreach by machine-led thought; confusion over what exactly AI currently is and can do.
Keep pace with change… then get ahead of the curve - Rail
WEB25/11/2021 in Network. “In terms of modernising, we need to keep pace with change. There is so much change happening around society, and we need to keep pace with what society expects and what technology can offer.”. That was the view of Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) Director of Sustainable Development George Davies, as he ...
Fast-charge battery train put into action
WEBMar 27, 2024 — The rails recharge the train’s batteries at 750V direct current (DC), with a current of up to 1,000 Amps. The three-car 230001 has two battery cars, so West Ealing is equipped with two sets of charging rails. Each can supply power at up to one megawatt (1MW), giving 2MW in total. * More on this story in Issue 1006 of RAIL magazine.
RAIL Live 2024 opens for first day in the sunshine (pictures)
WEBJun 19, 2024 — Prior and Rail Forum Chief Executive Officer Elaine Clark were addressing delegates on day one of the 2024 event, held on June 19-20. Reflecting a widely held sentiment within the railway, however, Clarke argued that “listening to the industry, there is a sense of frustration that not much is changing and if it is, it’s not quick enough”.
Time for electrification: why UK rail needs a new approach
WEBAug 14, 2024 — Time for electrification: why UK rail needs a new approach. Successive generations have spurned opportunities to make Britain’s railways cleaner and more efficient by investing in a rolling programme of main line electrification. Ben Jones looks at how the situation could be changed. In 1841, just 11 years after Robert Stephenson’s iconic ...