Kinaxia Logistics has upgraded its fleet with more than 200 bespoke new curtainsiders from Tiger Trailers. The top 15 UK logistics group has invested more than £6m this year on the 205 new trailers and is looking to order more in 2024. They are being deployed across the group as part of Kinaxia’s move to standardise its curtainside trailer fleet. …
Top trainer’s adaptive-controls vehicle steers Darren to Class 1 licence A disabled driver says his world ‘would be so much smaller’ without the support of a training expert in helping him gain a Class 1 HGV qualification. Darren Wiles, a T12 paraplegic, needed to pass his Category 3a and 3b driving tests in order to tow a trailer with his…
Looking back over several years of articles written for Rail Engineer covering the European Train Control System (ETCS), it is somewhat depressing to observe that none of the predictions for system introduction have come to fruition in the timescale stated or at the forecast price. Right across the world, national railways have struggled to implement ETCS systems for many different…
Above is a view of Sunderland in steam days, looking from south to north. And there are plenty of sleepers as well as the tower of the Town Hall. S underland’s S outhern S tructure Whist the histrionic and more traditional station building used to be at the northern end of the platforms, that at the southern end (in the 1930s) matched the…