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December 13, 2021 | Track

Managing network-wide RCF

Severe rolling contact fatigue was identified across the Auckland Metro Rail Network in 2019, necessitating the implementation of a temporary speed restriction the following year. David Burroughs analyses the report commissioned to determine the causes of the track issues and its recommendations for how it can be avoided in future.

November 11, 2021 | Infrastructure

Thales to upgrade two Egyptian lines

ENR awards Thales framework agreement to install signalling and communications and track double two lines in the delta region

November 9, 2021 | Financial

Austria plans €18.2bn five-year investment in rail network

Austria’s rail infrastructure framework plan covers the next five years and includes electrification and expansion of existing lines.

October 7, 2021 | Financial

Spanish rail infrastructure cartel exposed and fined €127.3m

Eight companies and 10 executives fined by Spanish regulator CNMC for their role in 15-year cartel.

September 1, 2021 | Australia/NZ

IRJ In-Brief - Projects: Germany to reopen lines; Adif to expand Cercanias network; electrification for South Auckland line

Germany plans to reactive 245km of railway while modernisation of key Austrian tunnel completed.

August 26, 2021 | Track

Adapting in-service rail monitoring for industrial railways

Benjamin Baasch, Judith Heusel, Michael Roth and Jörn C Groos, researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), explain how intelligent shunters are providing in-service railway track monitoring at the Braunschweig port railway.

August 19, 2021 | Financial

UZ raises freight tariffs to pay for infrastructure improvements

Electrification and track repairs to be part-funded by the increases.

August 19, 2021 | Track

Automating the rail gas pressure welding process

Ryuichi Yamamoto, senior chief researcher in the rail maintenance and welding laboratory in the Track Technology Division of the Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI) explains how a new simplified gas pressure welding process will help to overcome an expected fall in skilled welders.

August 18, 2021 | High-speed

HS2 trains contract to be awarded in October

Milestones for Britain’s new high-speed line revealed.

August 13, 2021 | Track

Streamlining track design with BIM

The use of drones and 3D modelling in BIM streamlined the installation of a new track layout while minimising disruption to rail traffic in northern Italy. Paolo Sangiorgi, managing director and country manager of Vossloh Cogifer Italy, explains how the process works.

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