The Health and Safety at Work Act gives inspectors powers to issue prohibition and improvement notices. Prohibition notices are issued when it is considered necessary to stop an activity that involves ...

Listen to this article Last year your writer assisted the Railway Safety and Standards Board of Great Britain with a technical report titled: ‘Train Protection and Warning System – A History and ...

Listen to this article The origins of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT) date back to the mid-1950s. It has designed and operates its own competency registration system known as ...

The significant improvement in UK railway safety over the past 25 years has been due to many factors. One, which has not always been widely recognised, is the significant improvements in rail ...

George Stephenson, engineer of the Stockton and Darlington railway, is renowned for his early steam locomotives. Yet, in 1847, the year before his death, he advised a visitor that “I have the credit ...

The re-signalling of the London Underground sub surface routes embracing the Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City, Circle, and District lines is well underway. Collectively known as the Four Lines ...

London’s first tube railway was the 1891 City & South London line. Trains were hauled by electric locomotives, some of which were built by Siemens Brothers. The tunnels were even smaller than today’s, ...

On 8 July, the Department for Transport (DfT) announced the go-ahead for over 50 road and rail upgrades across the UK, including five strategic road schemes and five key rail upgrades. Backed by over ...

Though the need for integrated public transport is widely accepted, the only town or city on the UK mainland with a rail-bus interchange under one roof is Hull. This was created when the station was ...

Further to presentations given to PWI Section meetings at Cheshire & North Wales plus Manchester & Liverpool, this article has been prepared to share an interesting project delivered in 2021. The ...

In the complex story of the electrification of the Great Western main line, one name keeps cropping up – Steventon Bridge (issue 167, September 2018). This structure, and the problems it has caused, ...

Rail Engineer described the outline design of London Underground’s forthcoming new Piccadilly line trains (2024 tube stock) in issue 190 (June/July 2021). Since then, Siemens or TfL have occasionally ...