Eurostar, the high speed rail service linking the UK with mainland Europe, has unveiled an ambitious 10 point plan in support of its Tread Lightly environmental commitments and in line with the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement and the Science Based Targets Initiative.
Ling Fang, the Managing Director of Alstom’s division in China & East Asia, tells Railway-News how her company is keeping up with the development of driverless metro systems.
After the recent fatalities involving Brightline trains on the Florida East Coast Railroad, Railway-News asks what the industry can do to eliminate trespassing on the tracks and reduce fatalities.
Well identified wires, cables and components give you an immediate insight into how an electrical panel works and how it is connected. Electrical panels can now be identified more efficiently with the new BSP41 Wire & Panel Identification Printer.
A remote monitoring system, which aims to predict the lifetime of train doors and detect potential failures in their operation is set to be completed by 2019.
The revolutionary Plasser & Theurer maintenance machine for overhead lines, the HTW 100 E³, passed the ultimate endurance test in the Climate Wind Channel of Rail Tec Arsenal (RTA) with distinction.
‘Too big to fail?’ The last time the implications of this complex economic theory was appearing in the national media the world was in the midst of the banking crisis of 2008; the idea that any organisation was so large and powerful that it was impossible for it to collapse was superseded by a bitter realisation that for many organisations, spreading themselves too thinly increased the risk of collapse along with the size of the hole in an industry after they do disappear from the market.
Research at the University of Huddersfield could lead to new generations of railway vehicles with carbon fibre frames and key components made using the latest 3D printing technology.
Alstom is to supply 10 additional Citadis trams to Bordeaux Metropole for a total amount of nearly €30 million as part of the optional order for the Bordeaux Phase III project, which was notified on 29 August 2011.