The evolution of particle breakdown in railway ballast – the crushed rock under railway tracks to absorb the weight of trains – has been modelled. Sun YiFei from the University of Wollongong led a ...

Mathematical models are extremely limited at modeling ballast, the gravel layer located under railway tracks. Researchers have shown that a large part of the energy introduced by a train passing is ...

Dapol have announced another series of IOA and JNA wagons with different running numbers, giving modellers the chance to expand their existing rake of wagons. Consisting of four different IOA wagons ...

Suppliers continue their R&D efforts to provide improved ballast maintenance solutions. Optimizing a ballast maintenance program requires equipment with improved reliability, expanded versatility and ...

FSW Design’s unique blow moulded ballast board for the rail industry has won the Best Industrial Product Design award at this year’s Plastics Industry Awards in London. The product was designed for ...

Miner Enterprises, Inc. (Miner) on July 1 announced that it is celebrating 40 years of “proven, reliable and advanced” maintenance-of-way (m/w) discharge solutions in its Miner AggreGate® line of ...