Railway technologies

The Ministry of Digital Development of Ukraine said that they are working on providing access to high-speed mobile Internet on road and railways.

Network Rail has completed a 25-kilometer beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone flight over land, believed to be the longest distance for such a civilian drone in the country.

China's first hydrogen fuel cell hybrid locomotive is put into trial operation. The experiment involved a railway line for transporting coal in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in northern China.

Nexus, a public transport operator in the North East of Newcastle upon Tyne, uses an industrial drone to monitor the infrastructure on 77-kilometer Tyne & Wear Metro lines.

Ferrexpo develops solutions for the automation and implementation of unmanned technologies in railway transport, which will be used for the internal operations of the Poltava Mining and Processing Plant.

After the conversion, each converted locomotive is expected to save 370 tonnes of CO₂ emissions annually.Hydrogen solutions company OÜ Stargate Rail has signed a letter of intent with the Estonian rail logistics company Operail to convert diesel-electric locomotives to zero-emission fuel cell electric locomotives, reports Railway Supply magazine citing Operail.

PKP Cargo, PESA and Grupa Azoty want to work together to develop zero-emission freight rail transport.The companies intend to jointly implement research and development projects aimed at developing optimal methods for using hydrogen to drive rail vehicles, as well as methods for transporting hydrogen and refueling rail vehicles, reports Railway Supply magazine citing Raport Kolejowy.

Pesa Bydgoszcz presented its hydrogen locomotive at TRAKO. This is a modernized locomotive with installed hydrogen cells.

VTG has successfully completed initial testing of a cryogenic LNG tank specially designed for LIQVIS GmbH, a subsidiary of Uniper SE.

Solar energy could be used to drive every fourth train in India in the future.According to a study conducted by the Indian NGO Climate Trends and the British startup in the field of green technologies Riding Sunbeams, direct supply of solar energy for the Indian Railways, bypassing the national grid, would get rid of almost 7 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year, which is equivalent to the annual emissions of the city of Kanpur, and at the same time provide traction for every fourth train.

LokoTech-Signal presented a comprehensive solution for automating the management of shunting operations at large railway stations and industrial transport.

In December 2021, it is planned to complete the construction of a high-speed railway from Stara Pazov to Novi Sad within the international line Belgrade - Subotica - Budapest.