CONTENTS

Issue 74 

June 2019

On the map: London's most stressful stations

New research from PowWowNow has ranked the most stressful Tube stations in London using data from the operator and social media 

Will Texas get the first high-speed line in the US?

The proposed Houston-Dallas could bring economic benefits to the state, but funding questions and local opposition from landowners remains

Is the Turin-Lyon high-speed railway still viable? 

Construction of the EU's €25bn high-speed railway line between Turin and Lyon is well underway, but could political wrangling in Italy derail the project

Five takeaways from the EU’s rail digitalisation report

From rail traffic management to automated operations and passenger services, digitalisation has huge potential for European rail if the funding can be found

Automating infrastructure design

Network Rail is looking for technologies to automate the infrastructure design process, which could improve performance predictions and reduce franchising risk

Train guard or no train guard?

As the debate over driver-only operation rages on in the UK, services without train guards have already been proven safe - but that's not the whole picture

A bold vision for the Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel, but questions remain

A Finnish entrepreneur and a public development project are both working to progress the ambitious rail tunnel link between Finland and Estonia, but is the project feasible?

In pictures: metro lines mapped out above ground

A project mapping out local underground networks on aerial photographs is showing some of the world's major metro systems from a new perspective