Ben Altman and Sharon Odetunde with Britain’s Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB), explain how research into low rail adhesion during the autumn is leading to new approaches to solving this serious age-old problem.
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Ben Altman and Sharon Odetunde with Britain’s Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB), explain how research into low rail adhesion during the autumn is leading to new approaches to solving this serious age-old problem.
Britain’s Rail Accident Investigation Branch identified low adhesion as a major contributing factor in an accident between two DMUs at a junction near Salisbury in October. Photo: Jack Boskett
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