Feature articles in the April 2013 issue of Railway Gazette International

April 2013 issue of Railway Gazette International magazine.

ETCS or CBTC on cross-city links?
Promoters of cross-city rail links must choose between metro and main line train control technologies. A study by the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers looks at the factors that may influence this decision
PTC making slow progress
US railroads are struggling to meet the deadline of December 31 2015 for network-wide implementation of Positive Train Control
Modernising Java’s northern main line
Local contractor PT Len Railway Systems is resignalling several sections of the Jakarta – Surabaya main line in Indonesia
MOB takes control
A low-cost signalling system using standard industrial automation processor modules is being installed on Switzerland’s Montreux – Oberland Bernois Railway
A logical development
ProRail and Movares have introduced a SIL 4 interlocking which uses programmable logic controllers developed for the chemical industry

Feast and famine continues
With a third hiatus in rolling stock orders now looming, Roger Ford explains how turbulence still stalks the train procurement market 20 years on from privatisation
Japanese experience underpins HS2 vision
HS2 Ltd Technical Director Prof Andrew McNaughton outlines how the UK’s emerging high speed network is taking design inspiration from elsewhere

Around 9000 visitors are expected to attend the Railtex exhibition in London on April 30 to May 2

Radical reform of Poland’s railways could bring a more commercial approach to investment and train operations, argues Andrew Goltz

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