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The £1.6 billion challenge
Network Rail has a target to achieve £1.6 billion of efficiency savings through Research, Development & Innovation (RD&I) – the question is, how can the industry help to deliver it? By David Clarke

Sensing the future
Andy Bird and Tareq Khodabaabacksh discuss how rugged solutions are bringing 24×7 data capture and remote condition monitoring to challenging railway environments
Strategy for evolution
Dr David McGorman takes a look at the demands placed on rail operators by the increasing demand for digitalisation and a connected railway

Patent of the month
Improving the installation efficiency of fire safety systems. By Nicola Anderson

Transforming rail
How something as unlikely as transformer dielectric fluid holds the potential to help introduce and extend high speed rail solutions around the world. By Barry Menzies

Future vision
Hitachi believes technology can deliver very different stations to the rail sector

Technology and support
John Newbury looks at why the rail sector is embracing wireless technology and how valuable the solutions are in an emergency situation such as a fire