Skip to main content
Dear N.K,

This week's hot topics:

  • Guest bloggers for Metro Rail 2014 needed
  • Rotterdam Central Station royal opening
  • How the UK is leading the way with barcode mobile ticketing
  • ABB wins Great Western electrification contract
  • 5 interesting air rail projects in development
become a guest blogger for Metrorail 2014

Search for guest bloggers commences for MetroRail 2014

It's this time of year again and we are beginning our search for guest bloggers to join us at MetroRail on the 1 - 2 April 2014. The event will take place in Business Design Centre in London and will see over 400 attendees this year! ...
rotterdam central station

Rotterdam Central Station Royal opening

Rotterdam Central Station was inaugurated by King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands this week.
13th March marked the Royal Opening of Rotterdam Central Station. The 675m euro project was implemented by Prorail, Netherlands Railways (NS) and the municipality of Rotterdam. The previous station lacked capacity for the current demand and traffic ...
How the UK Is Leading the Way With Barcode Mobile Ticketing

How the UK Is Leading the Way With Barcode Mobile Ticketing

With one of largest and most complex transport networks worldwide, the UK still often manages to lead in terms of technology and innovation due to the high levels of competition for franchises. With smart-ticketing high on government agendas, various ...
ABB wins Great Western electrification contract

ABB wins Great Western electrification contract

Swiss engineering group ABB have been awarded the Great Western electrification contract.
Abb and their consortium partner UK Power Networks have won an order worth �87 million to upgrade Britain's rail network in southern England and Wales.
The consortium will ...
air rail links

5 interesting air rail projects in development

This week I've taken a look at some of world's air rail projects under construction and others that will be very soon. I've picked 5 at some of the bigger airports that are quite interesting... Find out which cities and airports are investing in air rail links and what might be standing ...


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Rouhani wins Iran's Presidential election Moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani won Iran's presidential election on Saturday, the interior ministry said, scoring a surprising landslide victory over conservative hardliners without the need of a second round run-off.Interior minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar announced on state television that Rouhani secured just over 50 percent of the ballot based on a 72 percent turnout of 50 million eligible voters. Mr Hassan Rouhani ... got the absolute majority of votes and was elected as president," Najjar said. Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, a hard-line conservative, lagged behind with about 16 percent of the votes. Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, he too a hard-line conservative, earned 11 percent. The voter turnout was 72.7 percent. President-elect Hassan Rohani, sixty four years old, is known as a moderate conservative. He has been stressing the need to improve ties with Western nations, and is back...
Post a Comment
20
Save Dissent to Save Democracy   THE rising instances of physical violence and threats against political opponents and the inability to accept dissent must raise huge concerns amongst all of us who see democracy as perhaps the really stellar achievement since Independence. AAP’s attack on BJP headquarters and acts of arson committed under the very noses of their elite leadership; the attacks on Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in Gujarat in the last two days; the recent manhandling of the caretaker of journalist Siddharth Varadarajan’s house by some garden variety thugs; and the violence and threats meted out regularly to their political opponents by political parties is surely deplorable and condemnable. This is a fatally flawed trend which will destroy the very foundations of our democratic institutions if not pushed back with all the strength and condemnation that the civil society can mobilise. Replaying the past To begin with, it must be clarified that we should ...
Post a Comment
20
Discipline Virat can win WCC JUNE 24, 2019 Monsoon in day reach Lucknow Pranati- win the bronze medal M7.3 Earthquake – Banda Sea https://sagarmediainc.com/ INVITATION | LAUNCH OF “SWACHH MAHOTSAVA” CELEBRATIONS BY SH. GAJENDRA SINGH SHEKHAWAT, UNION MINISTER, JAL SHAKTI | 3.45 PM , MONDAY, 24 JUNE | VIGYAN BHAWAN, DELHI Invitation for a discussion on “Emergency: Darkest Hour in Indian Democracy” : S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF & Dr A Suryaprakash, Chairman, Prasar Bharti on Monday, 24th June 2019 17.30 NMML Invitation _Dr. Prabha Ravi Shankar_“G.A. Natesan (1873-1949): ‘Old and Dear Friend’ of Mahatma Gandhi”_24 June 2019_3.00pm  CPR and CSH are pleased to invite you to a workshop on ‘Whims of a Digital Boss: The Story of Insecure App-Based Workers in Delhi’ Speaker:  Akriti BhatiaTuesday, 25 June 2019, 3:45 p.m. Centre for Science and Humanities (CSH), 2, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Road, (formerly Aurangzeb Road) What are the Priorities ...
Post a Comment
20