Bucking the trend
02/11/2011 | Channel: Business Improvement, Infrastructure
Against a background of major changes in the form of asset renewal and operating contractor, Richard McClean and Ken McKay tell Kirsty Birkett-Stubbs how the Tyne and Wear Metro is continuing to deliver on local manageme

Systecon (UK) Limited | Finding the optimal spares strategy for rail vehicles

What assortment of components and spares will be needed for a train operation when the low-frequency maintenance starts? How can the choice of maintenance strategy possibly impact on the size of this investment? These are questions that all fleet operators and owners face from time to time, says Systecon’s HÅKAN BORGSTRÖM

Achilles | Engage to transform industry procurement

Procurement in the rail industry must change swiftly and decisively if it is to deliver the efficiencies demanded by Government and rail users, says ANNETTE POEHL, director rail & transport at Achilles

LeighFisher | Rail strategies – necessity still the mother of invention?

RICHARD MIDDLETON discusses the creation of a cost-effective new metro line in the Netherlands

Lanes for Dranes | TPS contract success signals Lanes Group’s capability

To win big in UK railway maintenance, companies are increasingly having to prove they are skilled multi-taskers – and Lanes Group is one company showing it has what it takes to meet the challenge

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