This is...

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...the new look Railway Technical Web Pages, a site packed with articles about railways, past and present, covering technical, operational and financial issues. We are rebuilding the site and we have designed a new image and format.

Regular readers will still see the same basic structure underneath the new face and we have retained the original page names to help you find your way to pages you might want to reference again.

Latest Updates here.

In our articles, we use the UK railway system as the base technology but there are also articles and information about other systems, like the US, as appropriate.  Articles and glossaries are provided for a range of subjects.

What We Offer

We include a wide range of subjects - planning, finance, operation, design, systems, engineering, production and maintenance. Both technical and operation aspects are covered. There's plenty of pictures and graphics. There is also some information about steam locomotives, including a glossary and an explanation of wheel arrangement descriptions.

Using the site

Navigation....

The main subjects are listed in the left hand link column.  Subjects listed as "....Pages" have several pages covering various aspects of that subject.

Thumb150comp-02.gif Diagrams like this one are provided throughout the articles to show sections of infrastructure, plans of stations, railway signs, signals, features and how equipment works.  This diagram is an sample schematic of the pneumatic auxiliary equipment on a train and is described fully in an article on this site here.


Site Map....

A full list of all pages on this site is provided on our Site Map.

Links....

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..... are provided on this links page to take you to a number of sites with specialist information in many countries around the world including the USA, France, Germany, Japan, Spain and the UK.  Click on this photo and it will take you to a page of links about High Speed Trains.

Contributions

A number of contributors have already provided excellent articles and photos for this site, and we will be pleased to consider new material for publication here.

Articles

The webmaster has written a number of published articles. The more recent ones have appeared in Modern Railways:
Making the most of existing capacity
Dilemmas on doors