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Calling all Women in Engineering – Photo call and World record attempt

Are you a woman working in engineering and technology?

Principles of Railway interlocking

In railway signalling, an interlocking (IXL) is a system composed by a set of signal apparatus that prevents trains from conflicting movements through only allowing trains to receive authority to proceed, when routes have been set, lock and detected in safe combinations.

Interesting Tricks to Get a Train Moving

How to get a train moving? There's some interesting simple physics you need to know before I tell you that you need to move one car at a time...

Super Maglev at 3000 km/h

A Chinese research team has recently tested a Super Maglev prototype that could theoretically travel at 3000 km/h.

British Rail Network signalling: from signal boxes to Integrated Electronic Control Centre

Signalling is the control process Network Rail uses to operate train safely over the correct route and to the proper timetable.

A really tight Railway line: market traders have to move out and even dismantle their shop displays when the train is approaching

The locals know when the train is coming (at four or six o' clock) so they all move out of the way and continue talking while the train goes past.

How will the train of the future?

Researchers from nine different German Aerospace Center Institutes are working together to come up with the train of the future.

London Crossrail project won by Bombardier for 1bln

Bombardier to provide the London Crossrail Service, which will connect Maidenhead and Heathrow Airport in the west, to Abbey Wood and Shenfield in the east and is expected to open in 2018.

FIRST Lego League competition: a working two-meter long replica of a Crossrail TBM

For the FIRST Lego League competition, a working two-meter long replica of a Crossrail TBM (tunnerl boring machine) has been built by the sponsorship between Lego Movie and Bechtel.

Top 10 Largest Railway Network in the world

Railway is a very useful source of travelling, but have you ever wondered which are the most equipped countries in the world related to railway network?

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