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Contents
8.19 Rolling Stock Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
8.20 Fleet Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
CASE
STUDY
CASE
STUDY
Case Study 1 – Overhead Line Failure . . . . . . . . . . 286
Case Study 2 – To Couple or not to Couple?
That is the question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Chapter 9
Railway Engineering, Maintenance and Renewal Management
9.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
9.2 The Railway System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
9.3 The Wheel-Rail Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
9.4 The Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
9.5 Earthworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
9.6 Bridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
9.7 Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
9.8 Electric Traction Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
9.9 Gauges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
9.10 Planning Engineering Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
9.11 Signalling Faults & Failure Management . . . . . . . . . 313
9.12 Failure Response Teams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
9.13 Signalling Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
CASE
STUDY
Case Study – Operations Involvement in
Infrastructure Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Chapter 10
People and Change
10.1 Style and Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
10.2 Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
10.3 Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
10.4 Supervision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
10.5 Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
10.6 Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
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