All RSSB articles

  • WMT Class 730 drivers seat TM05
    Rail Business UK

    RSSB research supports lowering minimum age to be a train driver

    2024-10-02T11:00:00Z

    UK: Research into the feasibility of reducing the minimum age of train drivers from 20 to 18 undertaken by the Rail Safety & Standards Board has found that existing training, competence and safety systems could be deployed for younger entrants. RSSB found that experience, rather than ...

  • gb-level-crossing-generic-networkrail
    Rail Business UK

    Near-miss reporting guidance aims to increase level crossing safety

    2024-08-16T11:00:00Z

    UK: The Level Crossing Strategy Group has published guidance to improve the reporting and management of near misses at level crossings. The guidance is the result of collaboration between stakeholders including Network Rail, the Rail Safety & Standards Board, operators LNER and c2c, and train drivers’ ...

  • gb-NR-mml-electrification-tensioners
    Rail Business UK

    Route Availability Calculator launched to simplifying train planning

    2024-08-05T04:00:00Z

    UK: The Rail Safety & Standards Board has launched a Route Availability Calculator to streamline and simplify the ‘time-consuming and complex’ calculations to assess vehicle compatibility with a route Users input a vehicle’s axle distances and axle loads, and the calculator on the RSSB website then ...

  • People in high visibility jackets
    Rail Business UK

    Rail Health & Safety Strategy for 2024-29 published

    2024-05-14T11:00:00Z

    UK: The Rail Safety & Standards Board has published its Rail Health & Safety Strategy for 2024-29, saying it aims to create ’the world’s healthiest, safest and affordable railway’. The strategy identifies five key risks: health and wellbeing; operations; occupational health and safety, including fatigue; ...

  • Sustainable Rail Blueprint
    Rail Business UK

    Electrification hopes sidelined in RSSB sustainability strategy

    2023-11-20T04:00:00Z

    UK: The Rail Safety & Standards Board has launched a Sustainable Rail Blueprint, which it says will support the rail industry in making progress on environmental and social sustainability challenges. According to RSSB, the industry faces a challenge not just to deliver net ...

  • Mind the gap
    Rail Business UK

    Platform Train Interface safety tool updated

    2023-08-21T13:00:00Z

    UK: The Rail Safety & Standards Board has updated a tool for identifying risks and assessing the effectiveness of safety management arrangements around the Platform Train Interface. The first PTI Risk Assessment Tool was launched six years ago. It has now been enhanced with a new ...

  • London Liverpool Street station concourse (Photo RIA)
    Rail Business UK

    RSSB develops zero waste metrics for the rail industry

    2023-08-15T11:00:00Z

    UK: The Rail Safety & Standards Board and Ricardo have completed the first phase of a project to develop metrics to help the rail industry measure circular economy, waste and resource management performance. Core metrics include: station waste generated, reported by treatment method; proportion of ...

  • Voltap fast charging equipment and Stadler Akku BEMU
    Rail Business UK

    Battery train deployment report commissioned

    2023-08-07T11:00:00Z

    UK: The Rail Safety & Standards Board has commissioned consultancy WSP to produce evidence-based recommendations for optimising and standardising the adoption of battery-powered trains. WSP said it would draw on its experience of battery train development in Norway and Sweden, as well as in the UK ...

  • London Liverpool Street station concourse (Photo RIA)
    Organisations

    Carbon Literacy for Rail training course launched

    2023-07-26T11:00:00Z

    UK: The Rail Safety & Standards Board has launched a Carbon Literacy for Rail training course, designed to provide anyone working in rail infrastructure, operations or the supply chain with the knowledge to lower their personal and organisational carbon footprint. The first course is scheduled for ...

  • GWR Hitachi train at Truro
    Rail Business UK

    Recommendations to improve on-train air quality

    2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

    UK: The Department for Transport’s Science Advisory Council has made a number of recommendations in response to a Rail Safety & Standards Board analysis of air quality onboard trains. The council notes that the methodology makes it difficult to compared on-train air quality with outdoor observations, ...

  • The Rail Safety & Standards Board and University of Sheffield are collaborating to investigate how more detailed information on temperature, humidity and the presence of leaf layers or other contaminants can be used to predict low-adhesion track condition
    Rail Business UK

    Research to improve prediction of low-adhesion rail conditions

    2023-02-07T04:54:00Z

    UK: The Rail Safety & Standards Board and University of Sheffield are collaborating to investigate how more detailed information on temperature, humidity and the presence of leaf layers or other contaminants can be used to predict low-adhesion track conditions caused by leaves on the line. The ...

  • Electrification renewals (Photo: Network Rail)
    Rail Business UK

    Standards revised to lower electrification costs

    2022-12-14T10:00:00Z

    UK: The Rail Safety & Standards Board has introduced new and revised standards for AC electrification systems and rolling stock which Director of Standards Tom Lee anticipates ‘will help the rail industry save millions of pounds when rolling out new electrification schemes’. The introduction of Standard ...

  • DB Cargo UK and Maritime Class 66 locos
    Rail Business UK

    Coupler research paves way for longer freight trains

    2022-11-22T04:00:00Z

    UK: The length and capacity of freight trains is to be increased as a result of research which has found that existing wagon couplers can safely accommodate higher trailing loads without upgrading or a detailed engineering assessment. The research by the Rail Safety & Standards Board ...

  • RSSB_KRRI
    News

    South Korean and UK bodies sign rail research MoU

    2022-09-29T11:07:00Z

    INTERNATIONAL: The Korea Railroad Research Institute and the UK’s Rail Safety & Standards Board signed a memorandum of understanding covering collaboration in railway safety research and development during InnoTrans. KRRI and RSSB intend to co-operate on: research and development of technology such as data-based safety ...

  • Channel Tunnel
    Rail Business UK

    Consultation on incorporating TSI changes into post-Brexit standards

    2022-09-02T05:00:00Z

    UK: The Rail Safety & Standards Board is seeking industry views on the extent to which revisions to EU Technical Specifications for Interoperability should be reflected in National Technical Specification Notices for Great Britain. NTSNs define the technical and operational criteria that rolling stock, infrastructure and ...

  • gb-RC22-aachen-trophies
    Rail Business UK

    FH Aachen and Reuschling celebrate second Railway Challenge win

    2022-07-25T05:00:00Z

    UK: A German grouping of FH Aachen and Reuschling has recorded a second win in the Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ 11th Railway Challenge, having first won the competition in 2019. Intended to reinforce practical skills and the ability to follow a system engineering process, the Railway ...

  • Railway workers
    News

    RSSB launches health and wellbeing data reports

    2022-05-27T13:10:00Z

    UK: The Rail Safety & Standards Board has launched a quarterly report to help railway organisations gain a better understanding of their health and wellbeing performance. The reports will provide health, HR and operational decision-makers with access to shared, aggregated data to assess and monitor health ...

  • GTR TSGN Thameslink Class 800 EMU
    Rail Business UK

    Sustainable Rail Strategy Prototype consultation opens

    2022-04-22T13:29:00Z

    UK: RSSB has opened a consultation on the Sustainable Rail Strategy Prototype, an initial version of the ‘comprehensive environment plan that will establish rail as the backbone of a cleaner future transport system’, which the government announced in the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail. SRS aims to ...

  • Electrification
    Rail Business UK

    RSSB commissions rail industry decarbonisation plan

    2022-02-22T08:00:00Z

    UK: The Rail Safety and Standards Board has commissioned Ricardo and Mott MacDonald to develop a decarbonisation action plan for the UK rail industry. This will clarify responsibilities, determine achievable timescales and provide a framework for measuring, monitoring and reporting on decarbonisation efforts. It will include: ...

  • Train cleaning robot design
    Rail Business UK

    Robot train cleaner to be tested

    2021-12-13T06:00:00Z

    UK: A robot designed to clean hard-to-reach areas between and underneath train seats is being developed by the National Robotarium research centre, which has unveiled the design ahead of laboratory and real-world trials with a prototype in 2022. The National Robotarium is supported by Heriot-Watt University ...