Electrification - Page 2

Focus on collaboration - ABC

What do Alstom, Babcock and Costain bring to the National Electrification Programme? How do they collaborate? PAUL PRENTICE spells out ABC

High-wire act

COLIN PRESTON explains how SYSTRA is conquering the challenges faced in the £742 million Edinburgh Waverley - Glasgow Queen Street electrification project

Investing in skills

Plugging the skills gap for generations

The National Skills Academy for Railway Engineering (NSARE) is leading the way in recruiting a new generation of railway engineers.

Electrification apprentices: engineers for the future

Network Rail’s apprenticeships develop the electrification engineers of the future, as PAUL PRENTICE discovers.

Firms take stock of the market

The gathering pace of electrification is attracting foreign train manufacturers to eye up the UK market - even if that means they must proceed with caution

Make haste at Hastings

All parties are agreed that better connectivity from Hastings to London via High Speed 1 is a sound idea. But when will it happen and is it even a done deal?

Ely’s electric revolution

RICHARD CLINNICK recounts just why electrification was so important for one of East Anglia’s key railway locations

Ripe for electrification

Industry insider report on how Midland Main Line has a stronger case than Great Western