Listen to this article At last year’s Railway Challenge, the chief judge, Bill Reeve announced that without doubt it had been the best challenge yet. This year he said the same thing, and the scores showed that this was no mere repetition. Indeed, this year’s challenge was the first in which all the locomotives present […]| Rail Engineer
Listen to this article Sekisui celebrates 10 years since the first installation of its synthetic wood on network rail and over 44 years of use worldwide. Since 1980, Sekisui has engineered and manufactured synthetic wooden sleepers made from Fibre-reinforced Foamed Urethane (FFU). In 2014, Network Rail engineers installed the first FFU baulks and cross-sleepers as […]| Rail Engineer
Listen to this article Following recent editorials entitled ‘Where’s the plan’ and ‘There is no plan’, this issue also focuses on the need for one. In doing so we make no apologies for emphasising the need for a whole system plan to engineer the railway of the future. In May 2021, the Williams-Shapps report committed […]| Rail Engineer