22+ hour, 10+ min ago  (687+ words) The Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE) will hold its 2026 Convention in Helsinki, Finland from 25 to 29 May 2026. Held every two years, this year's convention returns to Europe having been held in Toronto, Canada in 2024. The Finnish rail community is looking…...

22+ hour, 15+ min ago  (430+ words) A 1. 5-mile section of the Grand Union Canal, owned by the charity Canal & River Trust, recently reopened to the public seven days ahead of schedule after HS2 engineers successfully launched a 130-metre-long steel bridge into position over the canal. The launch…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (392+ words) The need for resignalling is driven by the age and approaching obsolescence of parts of the system and will thus improve reliability and release selected critical spares for other places. The final control area is illustrated in Figure 1 together with…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago  (257+ words) Graeme Bickerdike reflects on the structures great and small " captured in his new book " that still grace Britain's landscape long after their last train departed. These stories are embedded in the 200-year social history of Britain's railway network and told…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (730+ words) The well-known seawall along Dawlish Warren often features in the national press following storm damage and disruption to rail services. In 2014, the railway here was closed for two months following a breach of the seawall and also a serious landslip…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago  (909+ words) To make it all happen a new breed of professionals had to come forward, both to survey and select the best route and to produce the detailed designs and specifications for the new infrastructure and then to build it all....

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (387+ words) An IMech E seminar explored all of this in November 2025, with speakers discussing standards, experiences, the future, and how one might rely on the output of AI or machine learning. Moving onto some practical examples, James Hill and Emil Tschepp…...