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Dear All,
I've been slowly writing a series of articles describing how rail is made. I'm publishing these on LinkedIn (as it will hopefully reach some of my potential customers), however I think they may well be of interest to the general rail user/enthusiast too.
I'll come back and add...
Hi,
I wrote a little article on some of the rather unusual traction and rolling stock that we have here at Tata Steel Scunthorpe when we transport molten metal by rail. Perhaps you'd like to take a look for general interest. Click on the link to take you to the original article which has some...
Sometime ago I suggested I would write some explanations about rail (the things wheels roll on not the whole industry). Ok it was quite some time ago I admit!
So I've finally started to do some short blog type posts and the 1st of 5 of these are exposing some of the myths I get to hear about...
Dear all,
I've been given the timetable for this summers Scunthorpe rail tours which I think will be of some interest to members here. I think the site rail network is still the largest privately owned rail network in the UK.
More info can be found here
Appleby Frodingham Railway...
I wasn't sure if this is the right section for events, but it was the closest I could see!
Is anyone heading to Infrarail this year? It's at Earls court.
If you go along hopefully you'll see some of our rail products on display as we sponsor "The Track" exhibit. I'm talking about some of...
I'm not sure how many people realise there are lots of different grades of steel that can be used for railway rails. Each of them has its merits. Is there enough interest for me to put together a brief explanation of some of them? As I'm from the manufacturing end of the supply chain I'm not...
Today (03/04/2014) is the 7th anniversary of the current rail speed record.
Who will dare to go faster?
Youtube link to video
The record was smashed by the team efforts from Alstom, RFF and SNCF taking the speed record to 574.8km/h travelling over Tata Steel (then called Corus) rails...
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