Listen to this article Last year your writer assisted the Railway Safety and Standards Board of Great Britain with a technical report titled: ‘Train Protection and Warning System – A History and ...

Relationships between various Network Rail departments and the standards applicable to managing, preparing and collaborating internally and with train operators in planning and responding to autumn ...

Listen to this article The origins of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT) date back to the mid-1950s. It has designed and operates its own competency registration system known as ...

London’s first tube railway was the 1891 City & South London line. Trains were hauled by electric locomotives, some of which were built by Siemens Brothers. The tunnels were even smaller than today’s, ...

It is perhaps appropriate to look back at the Train Protection and Warning System (TPWS) since this year marks 20 years since the original project to comply with the Railway Safety Regulations 1999 ...

The Health and Safety at Work Act gives inspectors powers to issue prohibition and improvement notices. Prohibition notices are issued when it is considered necessary to stop an activity that involves ...

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 ...

The rail industry faces many challenges, with one being the migration of the Global System for Mobile Communications-Railway (GSM-R) to the Future Railway Mobile Communications System (FRMCS). GSM-R ...

Several recent articles in the railway press have reported on the closure of three mechanical signalboxes in Cornwall as part of an upgrade scheme. Much has been made of the traditional GW lower ...

Forty years ago, on Tuesday 1 May 1984 at 5.30 in the morning, Bill (Willie) Taylor, a signaller at Carlisle Power Signal Box (PSB) realised that 4S55, a Liverpool (Garston) to Glasgow (Gushetfaulds) ...

Over the last few years, we have heard a lot about the ‘Digital Railway’, but what has been delivered to create the digital signalling railway? We look at the delivery of schemes featuring ...

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 ...