When the Rail Manufacturing CRC closed its doors earlier this year, it spelled an end to dedicated rail innovation and technology funding in Australia.
While the loss has been felt deeply by the industry,
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Manufacturing in rail needs to seize opportunity of current pipeline: report
Australia has the opportunity to harness the current project pipeline to improve rail manufacturing productivity, a new report has found.
The report, Finding the fast track for innovation in the Australasian
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Data-driven maintenance: taking rail profiling to the cloud
Lifting data from the digital grave and into the cloud has opened up possibilities for rail maintenance. Autech explains how.
Twenty years ago, Swiss rail maintenance machine manufacturer Autech
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Securing a digital railway
Siemens explains to Rail Express how digitalisation in rail requires a focus on cyber security.
On June 19, Prime Minister Scott Morrison warned Australian businesses and agencies that
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Automated, continuous process for embedded rail track receives research funding
A $4 million Australian research project will look to automate the construction of embedded rail track (ERT), with the potential to apply the technology in the construction of heavy-haul and high-speed
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Designing smarter solutions: 4Tel’s AI innovation
4Tel is working to bring the latest in artificial intelligence technologies to simplify the uptake of condition monitoring.
In a report prepared for Infrastructure Australia ahead of the first
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Collaboration to drive safer railways
ONRSR, RISSB, and ACRI are collaborating to provide the Australian rail industry with the best track worker safety technologies and systems.
In one of only two prosecutions carried out
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First hydrogen filling station to power emissions-free trains
Rail manufacturer Alstom has joined with gases and engineering company Linde to build and operate a hydrogen filling station to support hydrogen trains on the Elbe-Weser network, in the German state of
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“This is for our grandchildren”: Why KiwiRail’s C-DAS is about more than saving fuel
KiwiRail tells Rail Express how its adoption of driver advisory systems (DAS) from TTG Transportation Technology is delivering benefits now and over the long term.
When representatives
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Partnership to produce hydrogen-powered trains in UK
UK rollingstock owner Eversholt Rail will join forces with Alstom to produce a new class of hydrogen-powered trains to decarbonise the UK rail sector.
With a combined investment of £1 million ($1.78m),
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