RAILWAY INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION
CableGuardian is the only product to offer proactive monitoring, detection and location of both insulator and conductor faults on live signalling power systems as specified in Network Rail specification NR/L2/SIGELP/27725.
Challenge Programmes RIA actively champions the big issues for rail suppliers through the RIA Challenge Programme. The challenges share the common characteristic that, if properly addressed, they have the potential to improve the efficiency and whole life cost of delivering railway projects to the benefit of all parties. Renewals Cost Challenge
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Decarbonisation Challenge This cross-industry workstream commenced in early 2018 following the Rail Minister announcing an ambition to “take all diesel only trains off the track by 2040”. RIA was a member of the industry taskforce which confirmed that it was feasible to meet this challenge and to achieve net zero carbon with a combination of additional electrification and the introduction of zero carbon battery or hydrogen fuel-cell self-powered rolling stock. RIA members have been actively developing and demonstrating these latter technologies to the point that train customers should be confident to place fleet orders. What is needed now is the clarity about which routes will be electrified and which will be self powered and RIA is supporting the cross-industry Traction Decarbonisation Network Study Standards are often criticised as being complex and driving up cost. Recognising this issue, Network Rail worked with RIA Members to develop a new process to allow third parties including suppliers, to challenge Network Rail’s standards. This new process has resulted in over 70 challenges which are being actively managed through the process. One of the challenges resulted in a significant reduction in future electrification costs and another allowed a RIA Member to get a composite platform into service, which will draw this map. Standards Challenge
resulting in a doubling of orders. Subsequently RIA has helped TfL to implement a similar process. Signalling Cost Challenge The Rail Sector Deal includes an objective to reduce the cost of digital signalling to European benchmark levels if the government provides a clear long- term implementation plan against which suppliers can plan. RIA members have helped develop the ‘Long Term Delivery Plan’ (LTDP) which has now been published and so RIA is supporting the work to establish the actions needed to both build up industry delivery capability and to reduce unit costs. Major Projects Challenge RIA is now working on a best practice report for achieving Excellence in Major Projects .
In 2017 RIA members started to notice a downturn in renewals volumes. It became apparent that this was a Network Rail funding issue and was resulting in experienced staff being made redundant. Recognising this example of ‘boom and bust’ was counterproductive for everybody RIA worked with NR and the DfT to allow £200m of funding to be made available to reduce the impact. This work has led to further discussions about ‘smoothing’ the work profile in the transitions between funding periods. Electrification Cost Challenge RIA believes electrification is the optimal form of traction for an intensively used railway and reflecting this, a substantial programme of electrification was launched in 2009. Unfortunately, some of the projects had major cost and schedule overruns which led to the government stopping most electrification projects in 2017. As a result, RIA launched a new cross-sector initiative – the Electrification Cost Challenge – to establish the lessons which should be learnt and demonstrate that electrification can and is being delivered cost effectively. The report published in March 2019 has been influential in getting electrification ‘back on the agenda’ and already we see the Scottish Government announcing a rolling programme of electrification.
This unique product provides continuous monitoring of live signalling power supply systems at a cable section level without the need to power down the system, reducing the need for manual trackside fault-finding, reducing maintenance costs and ‘boots on ballast’. CableGuardian is the technological alternative to the 5 yearly manual cable testing requirement NR/L2/SIGELP/50000. Empowering the rail industry to move from the uncertainty of periodic testing, to a real-time condition based approach.
Key Benefits:
• Fewer boots on ballast fault finding and cable testing • Quickly and accurately locate cable faults and cable theft • User friendly web portal for fault diagnosis and location • Allows trending of insulation resistance and insulation capacitance at a cable section level.
CableGuardian helping passengers to arrive on time.
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