All articles by Adele Berti

How could rail industry careers change in the future?

Record-breaking technologies, the end of paper-based ticketing, the electrification and de-carbonisation of the networks; these are recurring themes for the…
Solar-powered trains: the future of rail?

Sunshine on the Tracks: The Rise of Solar-Powered Trains The environmental crisis currently hitting the world has called for all…
Cracking down on metal theft on the railways

In the past year, the UK has witnessed a steep rise in live and non-live cable theft from the railways.…
Fruitful harvest: is tracking passengers with Wi-Fi the right way to ease overcrowding?

Author and consultant Geoffrey Moore once tweeted: “Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the…
In pictures: the world’s most beautiful funicular railways

They might not boast the latest cutting-edge technology, nor run along miles and miles of track, but throughout centuries, funicular…

Five questions for Alfa-X: the world’s fastest bullet train

Japan’s renowned passion for cutting-edge train technology and high-speed transport is back to astonish the rail industry with the launch…
Sea change: protecting coastal railways from rising sea levels

When Isambard Kingdom Brunel engineered the UK’s South Western Railway in the early 19th century, he saw great potential in…
Big moves: Swiss Railways’ infrastructure upgrades

New Rail Link through the Alps (NRLA) The largest and most ambitious project in the history of Swiss Railways, the…
Cape Town: will the city ever rebuild its railway?

Every day, some 30,000 Cape Town commuters use a Facebook group called “Metrorail Commuters - Cape Town” to find out…
From London to Scotland: Cruising along with the new Caledonian Sleeper

With High-Speed 2 facing continuous delays and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival only a few months away, Caledonian Sleeper will look…