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March 12, 2020 | Infrastructure

Network Rail awards maintenance contract to Harsco

BRITAIN’s infrastructure manager Network Rail has awarded a $US 25m mobile maintenance train contract to Harsco’s Rail Division.

March 9, 2020 | Track

Norfolk Southern debuts locomotive-mounted autonomous track inspection system

UNITED States class 1 railway Norfolk Southern (NS) has developed and deployed a locomotive-mounted autonomous track geometry measurement system, which the railways says will enhance safety and operating efficiencies.

February 4, 2020 | Track

Finland pilots condition-based maintenance for points

VR FleetCare and the Fairway Agency have launched a pilot project to collect data on switch malfunctions with the goal of reducing the more than 5000 point failures reported across Finland’s rail network every year.

December 31, 2019 | Track

Track maintenance efficiencies unlock capacity

As infrastructure managers look to increase network availability while coping with shrinking maintenance windows, pressure is building to operate as efficiently as possible. David Burroughs visited Vossloh in Germany to find out how its advances in rail grinding and milling are mitigating this issue.

October 10, 2019 | Infrastructure

Train speeds could be increased on New York Subway according preliminary report

NEW York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) published preliminary findings from its Train Speed and Safety Task Force on October 8 which show that line speeds on some sections of the New York Subway could be increased by as much as 50%.

October 5, 2019 | Track

Plasser & Theurer launches Track Machines Connected subsidiary

PLASSER & Theurer launched Track Machines Connected (TMC) on October 1 to supersede its P&T Connected subsidiary.

September 30, 2019 | Track

Rubber-coated ballast demonstrates improved track resilience

Can coating ballast with repurposed tyres provide the added resilience required to alleviate track stresses and ballast displacement on heavy-haul lines? Shunturi Govender, civil engineer at Transnet Freight Rail, South Africa, investigates the potential of Comsa’s Neoballast solution, which has been developed under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research initiative.

September 24, 2019 | Track

Harsco Rail unveils new tamper for CN

IRJ at Railway Interchange 2019: One of the highlights of the outside exhibit was Harsco’s TX16 tamper, the supplier’s first new tamper vehicle since the 1990s, which it is supplying to Canadian National (CN).

September 24, 2019 | Track

Rethinking wheel lubrication

IRJ at Railway Interchange 2019: Local supplier Robolube hosted demonstrations of its advanced gauge face lubricator system at the Northtown yard outside exhibition area in Minneapolis. The system offers complete wheel lubrication coverage and no waste, eliminating potential environmental contamination.

September 24, 2019 | Track

KiwiRail awards polymer sleeper contract

NEW ZEALAND’s national railway KiwiRail has appointed Lankhorst Engineered Products as its sole supplier of polymer sleepers for a minimum duration of three years.

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