Railway track engineering is a multidisciplinary field that focuses on the design, construction, and maintenance of rail infrastructure. A critical component of this endeavour is the ballast, which ...

The current setup is designed to fit track gauges of 1.43 m (4.6 ft), though this can be adapted for non-standard installations. The multi-panel modules can be installed and connected manually by ...

Four companies will supply On Track Machines, staff, and support for maintenance, renewals, and upgrades across the 20,000-mile rail network. Credit: Network Rail. Network Rail has announced the ...

Switzerland's Federal Office of Transport (FOT) has given a permit to the country's first removable solar power plant to be deployed on a railway line. The project is being developed by Swiss startup ...

This morning (Tuesday 7 April), passenger train services on the West of England Line ran over newly installed track for the ...

UK: In what supplier Sika says is a world first, contractor VolkerRail has installed polymer rail grout on a section of embedded track on the London Trams network using a machine instead of manual ...

Occasionally, due to technical faults, the wheel-sensing machine (called the axle counter) may mistakenly show that a track ...