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December 20, 2021 | Track

Maintaining metro track through milling

Voestalpine and PJ Messtechnik have developed a new concept of rail maintenance in plain track and turnouts which uses a combination of rail milling and monitoring. The process is explained by Hubert Oberhuber and Dr Johannes Neuhold with Voestalpine, Jordi Orta Roca with Barcelona Metropolitan Transport (TMB), and Dr Daniel Brandl and Benedikt Schönhuber with PJ Messtechnik.

December 17, 2021 | Technology

Researchers respond to new post-Covid challenges

Luisa Moisio, director of research and development at RSSB, and Professor Clive Roberts, head of the School of Engineering at the University of Birmingham and director of the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education (BCRRE), outline their views on the direction of post-Covid research, and their expectations for the 2022 edition of the World Congress of Railway Research (WCRR) to Kevin Smith.

December 16, 2021 | Freight

Interstate rail freight booms despite challenges

Disruption to global shipping and container supply brought about by the coronavirus pandemic has created a remarkable turnaround in inter-state rail freight volumes in Australia, especially on the east-west transcontinental corridor, reports Mark Carter.

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.

December 9, 2021 | Australia/NZ

Australia’s big-spending rail construction boom

Australia is in the middle of an unprecedented rail infrastructure boom with major projects underway or planned in four of the country’s six capital cities as well as a major national project. Tony Duboudin breaks down the projects and considers the challenges they face.

December 6, 2021 | Signalling

DB and Siemens demonstrate automated S-Bahn

DB and Siemens Mobility hosted the world premiere operation of an S-Bahn train using ATO over ETCS on October 11. Richard Clinnick reports from Hamburg, Germany.

November 22, 2021 | Employment

Israel seeks to develop homegrown talent

The Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) is launching a training programme on rail system engineering following the success of a course on rail infrastructure. David Burroughs talks to the head of Technion’s Institute for Transport Research, Tomer Toledo, about how the courses will help to combat a looming skills shortage in the country.

November 18, 2021 | Freight

Evolution not revolution for heavy haul

Gary Fry and Austin Allard* argue that while heavy-haul freight development has reached the point where there is no longer a need for further intensive research, there are still opportunities for improvement.

November 15, 2021 | Employment

German driver shortage shows no signs of easing

It’s an issue that has been ongoing for years, but Germany’s driver shortage doesn’t appear to be letting up anytime soon. David Burroughs looks at what is causing the problem, and how the industry is responding.

November 11, 2021 | Employment

Waving off rail’s gender gap

With women making up only 21% of its workforce, the European rail sector is looking at ways to close the gap. But as Richard Clinnick reports, simply trying to recruit more female staff requires a lot to change.

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