RAILWAY AGE, JULY 2022 ISSUE: Reducing rail wear and mitigating noise in tight curves are among the benefits of lubrication and its high-tech equivalent, friction management. Suppliers are helping ...

RAILWAY AGE, JUNE 2025 ISSUE: One of the surest and most common signs that something is amiss at the wheel/rail interface is accelerated wear of the wheels, rail or both. Occasionally the solution to ...

Research at The University of Sheffield is currently focussed on assessing the performance in the wheel/rail interface of traction enhancing materials. Low adhesion within the wheel/rail contact of a ...

The University of Sheffield has developed an open-source contact modelling software as part of work in the EPSRC Programme Grant “Friction: The Tribology Enigma”. We are using this to investigate the ...

The interaction between wheels and rails is a critical determinant of railway system performance, safety and longevity. At the point of contact, complex mechanical stresses induce wear, ...

Engineers have been developing solutions for the problematic interface between a Tram-Train vehicle and two very different railway infrastructures. Under contract by Network Rail, a team of engineers ...

The impact of Justice William Hourigan’s scathing report into faults with the construction and maintenance of the Confederation Line will be felt across all city operations, says the city’s acting ...