我们的工程师在季节性升级期间达到了一个主要的里程碑 - 我们的100日高速倒货。
12月28日,米尔顿凯恩斯中央线路返回乘坐火车运营商在125英里每小项,使服务能够比通常追随必要的轨道续约的速度更快地运行。
What’s a high-speed handback?
通常,我们在跟踪续订之后,我们将返回的速度送回50英里/小时的火车运营商。这是因为新轨道下面的地面必须定居。传统上,列车的通过以巩固曲目周期,直到我们可以将轨道设置为最终位置并增加线速度。
乘客更高的速度硬件 - 他们帮助时间表工作更好,因为火车不需要放慢速度。它们对环境也有益,因为火车不必使用能量来制动,然后再加速。
我们的高输出跟踪更新系统旨在以高速处理,并已完成多年。挑战是为我们的传统续订计划做同样的事情。
How have we improved our systems?
我们的engineers have a continuous improvement programme, which includes targets to return the railway to train operators at higher speeds. We have been developing techniques to achieve this for passenger services over the past few years. Crucial to this are various techniques to fully consolidate the track during construction, which means it no longer requires the passage of trains to do this.
传统的临时电镀连接系统,我们通常使用直到我们完全焊接轨道,仅适合运行高达50英里每小头的服务,因此我们已将更高的镀载联合引入我们的解决方案列表。在我们可以在哪里,我们希望在核心班次期间完全焊接和压力轨道,这也有助于高速硬件。
Steve Featherstone, programme director, Track at Network Rail, challenged his team to deliver 100 higher speed handbacks on conventional plain line and switches and crossings upgrades during the April 2018 to March 2019 year. The team reached its goal three months early.
