Jake Singleton-Hill, a 32-year-old civil engineer from Leicestershire, appeared on the Netflix reality show Love is Blind UK and told NCE he is choosing the profession over becoming a celebrity.
Victorian engineers may have given us some amazing railway assets, but did their construction techniques bake in earthworks challenges for us today?
Network Rail is currently trialling an innovative monitoring system which provides early warning of earth movements at sites across Scotland’s railways.
Imagine you could fix something instantly onto your site machinery to slash the cost, duration, safety risk and carbon footprint of your projects. Spanish construction giant Ferrovial Construction believes it has created just such a product through an initiative to better monitor earthworks vehicles. Ferrovial Earthworks is a system of…
The “depth of understanding” in the taskforce reviews commissioned by Network Rail following last year’s fatal Stonehaven derailment is crucial to the maintenance of the rail network going forward, according to Network Rail safety and engineering director Martin Frobisher.
Network Rail has released details of over 500 places on the network with similar characteristics to the site of the fatal Stonehaven derailment, along with the specifics of maintenance work carried out at six of these locations.
Network Rail is working to better understand the impact of extreme weather events so it can futureproof the railway.
Reports from Earthworks Management Task Force and Weather Advisory Task Force formed following the fatal drain washout derailment near Stonehaven in August are expected to be published this winter, minutes from the Network Rail board have confirmed.
Network Rail’s drainage systems are not used to “coping” with the amount of rain that fell prior to the Stonehaven derailment in Scotland earlier this year, according to chief executive Andrew Haines.
Engineers have begun relaying over 500m of track on the railway at Stonehaven following the derailment in August this year.
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