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December Issue 2011
20 Years of evolution
BLACKPOOL ILLUMINATIONS
It would be an injustice not to report on the new facilities at Starr Gate Depot, Blackpool.
DOUBLE INNOVATION IN ELECTRIFICATION
Balfour Beatty Rail's Air Insulated Switch Gear installed on the Paisley Corridor project.
TRANS SIBERIAN LANDBRIDGE
Russian Railways plan to create a Landbridge and attract freight from ships.
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November Issue 2011
Ouseburn Viaduct will regain it's standing amongst the other bridges as 'Belle of the Ball'
SUB SURFACE RENAISSANCE
The massive programme to upgrade all London Underground's sub surface lines.
PADDINGTON BORE
The completed approach to the Royal Oak Portal, the route for Crossrail's tunnelling machines.
BISHOP TO KING 7
Bishops Grange underbridge reconstruction wins Civil Engineering award.
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October Issue 2011
WORLD LAUNCH FOR BLACKPOOL TRAM
Blackpool is the first tram operator to order Bombardier's new FLEXITY 2 tram.
ACCESS FOR ALL
The key objective of the AfA programme is the provision of step-free access.
THE INNOVATION CHALLENGE
An exclusive interview with Steve Yianni, Network Rail's Chief Engineer.
7 YEARS AND STILL HOLDING FAST
HoldFast have supported the rail engineer in every issue for seven consecutive years.
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September Issue 2011
Balfour Beatty Rail celebrates opening of new office in Glasgow.
JUNGLE OR MINEFIELD?
Real Time Train Prediction system by Train Companies, ATOC and Network Rail.
BRIDGE WITHIN A BRIDGE
Brighton Goods Bridge No. 6 is an impressive and complex 5 span intersection bridge.
BOXING CLEVER
A planned, co-ordinated and accelerated programme of signalling renewals.
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August Issue 2011
Network Rail recognises and rewards partners and suppliers.
ROYAL REBUILD
The Royal Albert Bridge project has just started and will take two years to complete.
HYBRID POWER
To achieve transportation systems sustainability, a variety of technologies need to co-exist.
IT'S TRAM TIME
An 8.5 mile route from Edinburgh city centre to the airport gets go-ahead.
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July Issue 2011
STRIPPING AWAY THE GOLD PLATE
New technology and the right mindset engineers cost savings on a Yorkshire resignalling scheme.
NO PANE WITHOUT GAIN
The gloom starts to lift as 28,000 glass panels allow daylight into Waverley.
MANCHESTER UNITED
As demand soars, it's onwards and Hub-wards for the north's constrained rail network.
TAKE THE HIGH ROAD
Years of difficult labour sees engineers deliver the Welsh Highland's rebirth.
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June Issue 2011
GATEWAY STRUCTURE RESHAPES STREETSCAPE
A wedding weekend bridge slide offers future hope for London's critical bottleneck.
THE REVIVAL STRATEGY
Survival was once the name of the game; now the Cotswold Line is a winner.
RED IS FOR GANTRY
Engineering ingenuity turns the tide for a sickly viaduct, blurring the Lakeland vista.
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE
As the climate changes for GB rail, suppliers take the temperature at Earls Court.
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May Issue 2011
ELECTRIFICATION: DELIVERING THE TRANSFORMATION
The headlines might make easy reading but how will engineers meet the great western's great challenges?
A LEARNING EXPERIENCE
The cambrian's ETCS trail-exposing issues for its wider application.
DID THE EARTH MOVE?
A 24,000-tonne amputation stabilises the condition of a Cumbrian tunnel.
HIGH POWERED: A TRANSATLANTIC PARTNERSHIP
Traffic growth and limited capacity bring more muscle to Freightliner's fleet.
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April Issue 2011
It's Christmas support acts have left the stage - now Reading gears up for the main event.
PAX BRITANNIA
An iconic bridge receives health care 40 years after it almost lost It's life.
GROUND-BREAKING: THE BORDERS' RECONNECTION
Scotland's next big rail project starts to roll - with regeneration the destination.
TRACK MONITORING BY TRAIN
Could technology see the back of patrolmen putting their best foot forward.
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March Issue 2011
DELIVERED THROUGH DEDICATION
An eight-week closure brings a new track layout to Blackfriars' evolving station.
A PREREQUISITE FOR REMODELLING
Major resignalling work comes to fruition as Reading prepares for its main event.
MEASUREMENTS ON THE MOVE
The recording platforms and data streams shining light in monitoring dark holes.
A TOP-DOWN APPROACH
Engineers drop in to protect a cutting from the water washing over it.
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February Issue 2011
Selly Oak witnesses the UK's heaviest bridge slide involving modular transporters.
STRAIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE
A bottleneck gets smashed as a third track is squeezed into Paisley's busy corridor.
SUCCESS STORY SPANS A GENERATION
Docklands' railway - forcibly reshaped by turbulence and unprecedented growth.
THE CASE OF THE FIVE-SIDED BRIDGE
Skewed engineering lifts a Metrolink extension across the tracks into Rochdale.
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January Issue 2011
MARYLEBONE OF THE MIDLANDS
A generation after the last one departed Moor Street's Terminus welcomes trains again.
SIGNALLING GOES UNDERCOVER
Under the cable thieves' noses, the Durham Coast line snatches more capacity.
BRINGING THE MIDLAND UP TO SPEED
Coordinated in just 24 hours, the primary grid putting a main line in poll position.
TIME FOR TAKEOFF
Southend Airport connects to the rail network without trains taking flight.
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December Issue 2010
CAMBRIAN TRIAL SIGNALS NEW ERA
UK Rail signalling reaches a new milestone with the partial commissioning of ERTMS
RECYCLING A RAILWAY CORRIDOR
How the Airdrie-bathgate line, opening this month, has remodeled its landscape
ELECTRIFYING PROGRESS
Delivering the traction power to drive Thameslink ambitious future service
PREPARING FOR THE NEW ARRIVAL
With the Class 380 about to start work, ScotRail gets its house in order
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November Issue 2010
SEASIDE SEMAPHORES SUPERSEDED
Steam trains enjoy the benefits as Scarborough signals in a new era.
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
Strathclyde's track-to-train radio trail paves the way for network-wide GSM-R.
PLANT LIFE KEEPS GROWING
The bewildering array of new machines helping engineers to work smarter.
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October Issue 2010
FULL SERVICE HISTORY
High-cubes lift the lid off another bridge and its burden of buried furniture
UNLOCKING TRUE POTENTIAL
Careful planning brings a 'turn up and go' service to London's neglected line
LOST IN THE FOGG
An ill-fated railway landmark is remembered 50 years after its demise cost five lives
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September Issue 2010
THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
The new asset maintenance scheme designed to tackle the railway's challenges
BASEPLATES RECTIFY CORROSIVE POWER
Renewals solve problems caused by water, grime and residual currents
FACE FROM THE PAST
After hiding for 40 years, King Cross prepares to show off its Cubitt facade again
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August Issue 2010
THE TRAIN NOW ARRIVING
As uncertainty hangs over other train orders, Scotland welcomes its new arrival
A PARTNERSHIP APPROACH
Network Rail rolls out the red carpet to applaud the commitment of its suppliers
SHIP SHAPE
Hartlepool Station is no longer all at sea as a flotilla sails into town
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July Issue 2010
ELECTRIFYING PROGRESS FROM A2B
Scotland's next reopening moves a step closer as the wires reach Bathgate
WHERE RAIL MEETS STREET
How the road environment challenges the maintainers of our tram tracks
LIFEBLOOD TRANSFUSION
Modernising telecoms assets has kep the railway up to speed in Docklands
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June Issue 2010
SURVIVOR OF A SHATTERED DREAM
The airport link grabbed all the headlines but all is not lost in the Paisley corridor
GO LIKE THE WIND
How our quest for speed has blown us into the turbulent world of aerodynamics
KEEPING UP WITH OUR PAST
The Railway Heritage Trust - conserving our built history and finding new uses for it
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May Issue 2010
PUTTING ON AN EASTER SHOW
High-flying bridge engineering played out infront of twitching curtains
A BOLD PUSH FOR HIGH OUPUT
How a fleet of almost 200 vehicles will drive track renewals into top gear
A VICTORIAN ROOFTOP MYSTERY
Behind the cladding, what suprises has our forebears left for Victoria's engineers?
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April Issue 2010
NECESSITY MOTHERS RETB REINVENTION
With its health deteriorating, Scotland's remote signalling enjoys transplant surgery
AN OPPORTUNITY IN DISGUISE
The art of building bridges when circumstances conspire against you
COMING TOGETHER AGAIN
The latest wares in fertile pastures - Infrarail beckons for firms great and small
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March Issue 2010
MOVEMENT SIGNALS AN ERA'S END
As Reading prepares to be remodelled, the curtain is coming down on its PSB
REHAB FOR A SCREEN ICON
A rusting colossus has its place secured in Manchester's cityscape
THE DELUGE DILEMMA
How the railway is responding to the strain placed on its drains
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February Issue 2010
ENGINEERING AT THE EDGE
The Cheshire set benefits as the West Coast Main Line bridges their new bypass
NOTHING LASTS FOREVER
Having twice seen it's 'last train', a 145-year old bridge is finally coaxed into retirement
QUART SQUEEZED INTO PINT POT
A victim of its own success, Madrid's metro reaps the capacity gains of new signalling
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January Issue 2010
A-VOIDING FUTURE PROBLEMS
To fill a knowledge gap, engineers probe the innards of some fine Victorian handiwork
EUROPE'S VISION BRINGS SHARPER FOCUS
Examining the EU's increasing influence on railway engineering and its supply base
SPACE: A SUBTERRANEAN TRANSFORMATION
Hidden from public view, new tunnels eat their way through the London clay
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December Issue 2009
PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER
Saddling and tie bars ease Harringworth viaduct's inherent flaws
EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION?
Are LED's signalling the death of the incandescent light bulb?
POWER CUT
Europeans search for a fully integrated approach to achieve real energy savings
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November Issue 2009
RENAISSANCE BECOMES VIRTUAL REALITY
Options for a Northern Line extension emerge from a power station's shadow
ENGINEERING-LED SOLUTIONS
Solving fundamental design problems for a new multi-aspect LED signal head
TAKING THE PLUNGE
The team sinking below the water line to examine 3,500 structures.
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October Issue 2009
GONE WITH THE WIND
Attention to detail helps to lift two identical river bridges into place
WEIGHT-LOSS DRIVES STEP-CHANGE
Announcing the arrival of Bombardier's lean and energy-mean AVENTRA
DRAIN TRAIN TO THE RESCUE
No longer dammed by ballast, Wootton Bassett's waters flow freely again
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September Issue 2009
KEEPING THE RAILWAY AFLOAT
A pile-driving marathon stops peat from sinking the Doncaster - Scunthrope line
CONQUERING THE HIGH SPEED CHALLENGE
Collaboration and vision combine to power Spain's new network of lines
NEW FLEET DRIVES RAIL ARRIVAL
How a shining arrival tunnel turned around the fortunes of Northern Ireland's Railways
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August Issue 2009
FOUR BRIDGES, ONE WET WEEKEND
With logistic headaches tamed, engineers bring structural relief in 51 hours
BRINGING NEWPORT TOGETHER AGAIN
In a city cut in Two by the Victorians, a new station will reach across the divide
CELEBRATING SUCCESS
Network Rail has rolled out the red carpet for its partners in the supply chain
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July Issue 2009
3 INTO 2 DOESN'T GO
A problematic gap in the Midland Main Line's third track has been filled
BEST IN SHOW
Track machinery suppliers gather to show off their wares
WHERE TRAIN AND TRACK MEET
Considering the importance of wheel and rail as an integrated system
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June Issue 2009
DEVELOPMENTS IN DOCKLANDS
Growth trends and the Olympics add extra cars to the DLR's fleet
GOING UNDERGROUND
How the logistical challenges of working in tunnels is driving a welding evolution
BIG BANG THEORY
The UK lacks the facilities to carry out full scale crashworthiness tests...or does it?
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May Issue 2009
SUCCESS SIGNALLED AT MILTON KEYNES
Another piece of the West Coast jigsaw is slotted into place
STOPPING DANGER IN ITS TRACKS
TPWS brings enhanced protection at Ilford Depot
WHAT'S THAT COMING DOWN THE LINE?
Preparing to carry buses - the railway that succumbed to bus competition
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April Issue 2009
SUCCESS BORN FROM DERELICTION
Cauldwell TMD investment drives reliability to an all-time high
VIENNESE WHIRLWIND
Blowing hot and cold as Rail Tec Arsenal puts trains through their paces
WITH A WHIRR AND A CLUNK
Point motor manufacturers rise to the low-maintenance high-reliability challenge
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March Issue 2009
NEW STATION BOASTS GREEN CREDENTIALS
Sustainable thinking triumphs at East Midlands Parkway
AN ISLAND WITH RAIL AMBITIONS
How the age of the train arrived on Tenerife
EARL'S COURT PREPARES FOR RAILTEX
Looking forward to our seminar programme
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February Issue 2009
HIGH TIME FOR HIGH SPEED
Do the government's Heathrow plans herald a new dawn for Britain's railways?
WELCOME ARRIVAL
Third platform officially opens at Manchester Airport's station
INDUSTRY SHOWCASE
Exhbitors step forward for next month's Railtex
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January Issue 2009
THE UNDERGROUND - NOW WELL CONNECTED
Work completed on new communications system
NEXT GENERATION FOR THAMESLINK
Bids invited for new train fleet
MEETING THE 24/7 CHALLENGE
Flash Butt Welding innovations - vital for a modern, reliable railway
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December Issue 2008
EAST MIDLANDS TRAINS REFURBISHMENT
Standardisation of 158 train fleet
MANAGING OUR RAILWAY ASSETS
Iconic bridges under examination
ENGINEERING TECHNICIANS FOR TOMORROW'S RAILWAY
Advanced apprentices board HMS Sultan
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November Issue 2008
TECHNOLOGIES FOR DRIVER ONLY OPERATION
Designing platform TV systems
ASPECT 2008 CONFERENCE
The IRSE review of S&T
FLOODING ON THE SOUTH WALES MAIN LINE
Water flowing, formation moving, adrenaline pumping
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October Issue 2008
READING STATION
Development through partnership
ELECTRIFICATION FOCUS
5,000 kms of new electrification could be added
GRADE II LISTED 'FLYING ARCHES'
Raising the roof in Chorley cutting
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