European Rail Operations on the Fast Track
Raising speed has long been a feature of railway operations, initially to outpace rudimentary road travel for passengers and canals…
All articles by
-
-
Visionary Technology
The use of CCTV systems has long been championed as a means of improving public safety and, unsurprisingly, a heightened…
-
China Invests in a New Age of Rail
China is a vast country with an enormous growing population. It is modernising in a hurry; part of this change…
-
Electronic Ticketing: Turn Up and Go Travel
We were led to believe that the arrival of computer technology would quickly result in paperless offices and the printed…
-
Does Europe Have the Stamina for Change?
Safeguarding the world from irreversible climate change now seems to be at the top of everyone's agenda, and making public…
-
The Crossrail Skills Crisis
After years of campaigning and controversy over alternative routes, the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, on October 5 this year,…
-
UK Rail Planning – the Next 30 Years
Claimed by the UK Government as 'the most positive statement about the growth and development of rail for over 50…
-
Next Stop 2008
The year 2007 has been all about smashing records, opening new frontiers and finding ways to grow in a world…
-
Tackling a Leafy Issue
It's July 1999 and former Royal Navy lieutenant commander Malcolm Higgins is driving home from London. The radio is on…
-
Riding the Green Line
You only have to look at recent climate change protests at the UK's Heathrow Airport to realise the scope of…