Archive for category: Rolling Stock and Components
Building Bogies
Last month, the rail engineer visited Graz, the historic capital of Styria and Austria’s second city, for the launch of the new SF7000 bogie which Siemens intends to use on the new Desiro City trains that it will shortly be building for the Thameslink programme. During that visit, Siemens’ engineers were keen to show how...Transforming Trojans
When the Corus steelworks at Port Talbot needed new, more powerful industrial locomotives for its internal rail system, it turned to Corus Northern Engineering Services at Scunthorpe to design and build them. Four locomotives were built, with many delays and redesigns, between 2008 and 2011. The first “Trojan” locomotive, No.920, was supplied in October 2009,...Indian Railways orders 693 LHB coaches
The Rail Coach Factory based in Kapurthala has won an order to provide 693 Linke Hoffman Busch (LHB) coaches from Indian Railways. The new coaches are safer and more comfortable than coaches currently under operation on Indian Railways’ network. “LHB coaches offer better safety and do not overturn in case of a head-on collision,” a...Shunter Safety: The industry’s hidden concern
Written by Christian Fletcher, Technical Director, Zonegreen There is no doubt that the rail industry is a potentially dangerous place to work. After all, there are not many industries that expect employees to deal with high voltage electricity, speeding vehicles, powerful machinery and thousands of members of the public on a daily basis. Because of...
Merseyrail to replace train fleet
Merseytravel has said it has begun the process to replace the Merseyrail fleet…
Bombardier awarded Scandanavian locomotive contract
Bombardier Transportation announced today that it has won an order from Bure…
A rich heritage
Mention Crewe Works to an old railway anorak and it takes them back to the days of steam. To the locomotives that were built when William Stanier was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, and the later BR standard classes, the Britannia and Clan passenger engines and the Class 9 2-10-0...Class 071 boosts freight
The last couple of years have seen a revival of freight services in Ireland with regular container services between Ballina and Waterford and Dublin ports and timber trains from Ballina / Westport to Waterford picking up pace. Zinc ore trains also run three times daily between Drogheda and Dublin Port. To improve the reliability of...
South West Trains invests in more rail carriages
South West Trains and the Department for Transport have announced that funding…
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