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13 November 2018 | By Alison Bell (MTR Crossrail)
When MTR Crossrail was planning one of the largest recruitment campaigns seen in the rail industry’s recent history, with over 450 trainee train drivers to be recruited to operate the 60-mile Elizabeth Line and 155 customer experience assistants to work within the 10 new stations, the firm knew they could…
9 November 2018 | By Joao Rocha - Network Rail (High Speed) Ltd
Ahead of Global Railway Review’s Digital Rail Revolution event at the UIC headquarters in Paris on 21 November 2018, we asked Joao Rocha, Senior Asset Manager at Network Rail (High Speed) Ltd what he’s most looking forward to about this year’s event.
7 November 2018 | By Jenny Gejke - SJ
Ahead of Global Railway Review’s Digital Rail Revolution event at the UIC headquarters in Paris on 21 November 2018, we asked Jenny Gejke, Head of Digital Sales Channels at SJ AB what she’s most looking forward to about this year’s event.
5 November 2018 | By Mark Goldby
Stretching from Shropshire to Lincolnshire, with the M1, M6 and most of the major UK railway lines running through it, the Midlands sits at the very heart of the UK economy. Home to over 10 million people, 20 universities and 440,000 businesses, it is the largest UK economic area outside…
2 November 2018 | By Paul Beard (Rail Industry Writer)
On 30 October 2018, more than 150 delegates attended RSSB’s Intelligent Power Networks to Decarbonise Rail conference. This was borne out of and inspired by the UK Minister for Transport, Jo Johnson’s decree, back in February 2018, in which he said, “I would like to see us take all diesel-only…
19 October 2018 | By Michael Saucier - AspenTech
As scheduling has become more sophisticated, maintenance processes have evolved and improved. However, as Michael Saucier, Product Manager at AspenTech discusses, recent studies indicate that most equipment fails on a ‘random’ basis no matter how many assets are inspected. In other words, failures cannot necessarily be correlated to how maintenance…
18 October 2018 | By Pedro Fortea - MAFEX
In recent years, the Spanish rail industry has undertaken vast strides towards the development and implementation of strategic technology that allows productivity to increase whilst reducing costs. Pedro Fortea, Managing Director of Mafex, explores further.
12 October 2018 | By Alison Bell (MTR Crossrail), Nigel Gibson (ASLEF)
MTR Crossrail HR Director, Alison Bell, ASLEF District Organiser, Nigel Gibson, and the drivers themselves explain how MTR and ASLEF quadrupled the number of female drivers in less than 12 months.
5 October 2018 | By Dr. Madhav Mishra - Luleå University of Technology
Railways are important transportation systems within society, and the pressure on their services has been increasing due to a rise in adoption, population and traffic flow. Dr. Madhav Mishra, Senior Researcher at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, discusses a maintenance technique that could help managers in meeting this demand.
4 October 2018 | By Global Railway Review
The UK currently has a national rail infrastructure pipeline worth £88 billion, which is the greatest investment in the sector in over a century. As a result of these unprecedented levels of investment, significant opportunities exist for investors to support and add value to the rail supply-chain.
1 October 2018 | By Ian Reynolds (KBH On-Train Media)
Ian Reynolds, Managing Director of KBH On-Train Media, believes improvements in on-board connectivity have the potential to revolutionise rail travel as we know it, and open up highly lucrative new revenue streams for the industry and the economy as a whole.
12 September 2018 | By Tony Latienda (HPF)
Tony Latienda, Director - Rail Sector at the Hurley Palmer Flatt Group, writes about the importance of appointing independent commissioning experts at the outset of rail projects.
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