Signalling: Visualising designs at an earlier stage
Most signalling schemes across the sector are designed using 2D schematic plans. But this approach can make it difficult to visualise what drivers in the train cab will see, and when and how they will react. To address this and other challenges, Arup has created a signalling visualisation tool that is being deployed as part of Network Rail’s Transpennine Route Upgrade.
Post-Covid rail sector must understand what it does best, says Haines
UK: ‘We in the rail sector must be objective and honest about what we are good at’, Network Rail Chief Executive Andrew Haines told a conference in Birmingham on October 3, as he reflected on how the industry can plot its way through the uncertainty of the post-Covid period.
Research expertise used to optimise Transpennine Route Upgrade designs
UK: The University of Huddersfield’s Institute of Railway Research is providing specialised pantograph-catenary interaction and vehicle dynamics expertise to optimise designs for the Transpennine Route Upgrade programme.
TransPennine Express to stop using loco-hauled push-pull trains in December
UK: TransPennine Express has confirmed that it will cease using its push-pull sets of Class 68 locomotives and MkVa coaches, previously designated ‘Nova 3’, from the December 2023 timetable change.
Immersive training centre to increase rail worker safety
UK: Rail Minister Huw Merriman has opened a £2·7m immersive safety training centre designed to enable rail workers to experience safety-critical scenarios in a safe environment.
‘Fully staffed’ TransPennine Express ‘needs to become simpler’
Recently appointed interim Managing Director of state-owned TransPennine Express, Chris Jackson tells Rail Business UK about his plans to revive the fortunes of the struggling operator.
Rail Minister commits to trans-Pennine electrification ‘in full’ and HS2 to Manchester
Manchester rail plans rethought as ‘ambition wasn’t able to be delivered’
Locally guided £72m rail plan aims to unblock northern rail capacity
From aircraft carriers to the Transpennine Route Upgrade
AI to improve Transpennine Route Upgrade project scheduling
Rail projects included in Treasury’s list of schemes for acceleration
‘On Track to Better’ Transpennine Route Upgrade awareness campaign launched
Full electrification in scope as Transpennine Route Upgrade makes progress
Huddersfield to Dewsbury route upgrading approved
Interview: ‘Give us the infrastructure and we will invest to grow’
Government allocates £84m to enhance reliability as Manchester Rail Blueprint emerges
TransPennine Express explores further fleet and capacity expansion options
Integrated Rail Plan promises benefits earlier as HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail plans scaled back
Northern leaders demand infrastructure commitments before agreeing timetable changes