Railway turnouts are a necessary part of railway infrastructure, used throughout the network
to direct trains to the desired path, thus ensuring the smooth running of every train. Their …

Track switches are safety critical assets that not only provide flexibility to rail networks but
also present single points of failure. Switch failures within dense-traffic passenger rail …

The turnouts in railway infrastructure constitute bottlenecks, limiting the capacity of the entire
railway network. These turnouts force speed limits due to their design and geometry. The …

Background Despite their important role in railway operations, switches and crossings (S&C)
have changed little since their conception over a century ago. It stands now that the existing …

Repoint is an alternative concept for the design of track switches developed at
Loughborough University. The concept, based around a stub switch, offers several …

A strong necessity for faster mass transport with high capacities and frequent runs has put
pressure on railway infrastructure. These changes require an improvement in the …

The main contribution of this paper is the development and demonstration of a novel
methodology that can be followed to develop a simulation twin of a railway track switch …

A novel track switch actuation method, known as Repoint Light, is under full-scale prototype
design phase at loughborough University. The design concept uses parallel-channel …

Railroads (RRs) are a vital transportation system on which the national economy is highly
dependent. For example, it is estimated that the seven largest RRs in the United States (the …

This paper focuses on modelling, control, realisation and performance analysis of a full-
scale demonstrator for a novel railway track switch. For over a century, railway track switches …