Global Railway Review’s Track Insight: Track Maintenance
This Track Insight delves into the revolutionary technological advancements that are transforming how we approach track maintenance.
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This Track Insight delves into the revolutionary technological advancements that are transforming how we approach track maintenance.
In the dynamic and ever-evolving landscape of the global rail industry, one area has rapidly ascended to critical importance over the past 15 years: the meticulous inspection of railway tracks.
As we embrace advancements behind next-generation rail systems, operators need to ensure strengthened cyber resilience to counter the evolving threat landscape. Kevin Wood, Cyber Design Authority, Thales, explains further.
Allison Harbor, Accessibility Delivery Manager, South Western Railway, shares the benefits of moving to a real-time system powered by Transreport’s Passenger Assistance technology.
A junior developer at a fast-growing fintech startup, racing to meet a launch deadline, copied an API key into a public GitHub repo. Within hours, the key was scraped, bundled with others, and traded on Discord to a shadowy network of digital joyriders.
The Huawei Smart Urban Rail Summit, themed "Steaming Ahead with Cloud-Network Convergence and Data & AI Enablement for Smart Urban Rail", was held in Hong Kong, China.
Our team attended Transport Ticketing Global, the premier industry event focused on smart ticketing innovations for public transport. This March the London-based conference has welcomed over 1,200 ticketing and mobility professionals representing 65 countries, including key decision-makers from transport operators, authorities and technology providers across the ecosystem.
Global Railway Review speaks to Dr. Georg Friberg, CEO of Goldschmidt Group, a company that is known for having invented the Thermit® welding process for rails 130 years ago and that is the global market leader in this field of expertise.
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Today, rail freight largely operates the same way as in the early days, it heavily relies on manual interventions at each step, including (un-)coupling, and does not allow only very limited data connectivity. Karel van Gils from EU-RAIL explains further…
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Transport expert and influencer, Paul Comfort, speaks to Emmanuel Colin about the importance of customer service and passenger experience on modern rail.
Lee Bateson, mechanical and engineering manager and robotics lead at Costain and Alan Worsley, design and project manager at Tunnel Engineering Services (UK) Ltd, share their insight into how integrating AI and data analytics to understand ways to improve productivity, efficiency and safety, could see the realisation of a fully…
Harry Bateman and Barry Calder from Alstom received top honours at the YRP Awards 2025, recognising their contributions to diversity, innovation, and leadership in rail.
AtkinsRéalis and Arcadis will provide design services for Northern Powerhouse Rail and other major rail projects, strengthening UK rail infrastructure and economic growth.
GCRE hosted a showcase event for rail innovations, featuring twelve projects supported by the Innovation in Railway Construction programme, highlighting sustainable rail solutions.