The overarching goal of public transportation is that everything will run smoothly, and its security should reflect this. Search Detect React® (SDR…

Under the Transport 21 plan – the most significant investment ever in Ireland’s transport infrastructure – the country’s rail network is undergoing…

Cyclones, forest fires, heat waves, heavy rain and snow…. As the climate changes, the transport sector needs to change too. In response…

The high-speed line linking the Rhine and Rhone river valleys is introducing a new type of infrastructure to rail in France…

SNCF Research & Development, together with the Laboratory of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at Montpellier University (LMGC) and Réseau Ferré de France (RFF…

RAILENIUM is an initiative to set up a technological research institute dedicated to railway infrastructure. “There is a real need for a…

Research on new, vehicle-based technologies for combating the impact of leaves on the rails gets to the root of the problem…

On December 18, 2006, during the initial speed trials on the track, French transport minister Dominique Perben presented the ‘French excellence’ programme…

High Speed 1, the fast line linking the U.K. to the continent, will open for commercial services on November 14, 2007. At…

The new high-speed/high-capacity lines in operation along the Rome–Naples and Turin–Novara routes, are electrified with a 2…

Modernising existing tracks and developing infrastructure are equal priorities for Russian Railways (RZD). The company is investing in tackling weaknesses to bring…

With Crossrail and many other large-scale tunnelling projects in the pipeline, the demand for skilled workers in the U.K. and Europe…

At the heart of Europe’s rail network, Belgium is a key link in what is set to become a vast, interoperable…

In recent years, extreme weather isn’t the only phenomenon disrupting rail. The entry into service of latest-generation trains is also…

In rail, everyone is accustomed to hearing the wheels of a train rolling. But nobody likes squeaking. Avoiding rail squeak on bends…

Monumental and expressive, airy and transparent, Liege-Guillemins is the work of engineer and architect Santiago Calatrava. It is already asserting itself…

This article describes an innovative solution for the Protection and Control (P&C) of the U.K. railway traction power supply infrastructure, which…

Created in October 2001, Lyon-Turin Ferroviaire (LTF) is a joint subsidiary of Réseau Ferré de France (RFF) and Rete Ferroviaria Italiana…

Belgian infrastructure manager Infrabel is busy installing GSM-R across the entire network. GSM-R, the standardised system for digital communications, is…

Although the general tendency among eEurope’s rail infrastructure managers is towards removing level crossingswherever physically and financially possible, the alternative…

In June 2007, Dutch infrastructure manager Prorail completed doubling the Amsterdam-Utrecht line, one of the country’s largest rail projects to…

Members of the European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM) are very Western European centred, principally because they have totally separated their infrastructure from…

This article presents an innovative approach to a vehicle-autonomous, localisation system for railways, providing cost-efficient position information for various safety…

April is the cruellest month, according to T.S. Eliot, but it is October that fills rail operators with dread. Every autumn, hundreds…

This paper presents the preliminary results of the SELCAT project, funded by the European Commission. Its main objective is the collection and…