The general public are being asked to air their views on the recently published North East Rail & Metro Strategy (NERMS) which aims to showcase the region’s rail and metro ambitions whilst creating a vision of what the network could look like by 2035. Indeed the team at SigTech Rail know the network very...
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TFL Tube Ridership Levels Grow
Transport for London figures show continued growth in customers using the tube which is primarily due to the lifting of Covid restrictions on 19th January 2022. Tube customers have increased by over 25% since early January and bus ridership has gone up by nearly 10%. Millions of customers are now embarking on using public...
SigTech Rail Support the Work Pipeline Visibility Charter
SigTech Rail is proud to recently sign up to the The Rail Supply Group's government backed Work Pipeline Visibility Charter. As signatories of the Charter we will provide our work pipeline visibility across our supply chain in order to allow our suppliers to plan and invest with confidence, driving improvements in productivity, enhance collaboration...
Happy Robert Burns Day
Today is a celebration of the life and poetry of the famous poet Robert Burns, who was born on the 25th January 1759 and died on 21st July 1796. The first ever supper was held by a few of Burn’s friends in memoriam of him at Burns Cottage on 21st July 1801, which was...
Spotlight on SigTech Rail
Spotlight On …. SigTech Rail Consultancy Innovative, Creative & Adaptive SigTech Rail was formed in early 2016 by the founder Pete Lindley who is a highly qualified and well-respected Signalling Engineer. Since the company’s inception the business has gone from strength to strength and become synonymous with providing safe, efficient & innovative signalling engineering...
SigTech Rail Editorial with Rail Engineer December 2021
Pete Lindley Managing Director of SigTech Rail & Paul Darlington CEng FIET FIRSE Author of Rail Engineer had the pleasure to meet and discuss the many important benefits of using SMEs such as SigTech Rail to provide signalling engineering services to support Network Rail in running a safe, modern and efficient railway. Paul's specialist...
STRC – Our New Company Values
As an SME business working in the Rail Signalling sector which highly safety regulated our teams got together to re-evaluate our core operational business values. We didn't want to write any old jargon but wanted to impart the values which we truly believe in and which we know we can deliver upon. More importantly...
Signal failure – Two Dreaded Words We Don’t Want to Hear
On 12 December 1988, during the morning rush hour, three commuter trains carrying an estimated 1,300 passengers collided in Clapham, Europe's busiest railway junction. Hundreds of people were injured in the crash and 35 people lost their lives. It remains one of the worst incidents in London’s Fire Brigade's history. What happened As reported by...
Pete Lindley Completes CITB Site Safety Plus Training Course
We would like to congratulate our Managing Director Pete Lindley on passing his Site Management Safety Training course with the CITB. This CITB SMSTS Refresher course online aims to bring the candidate’s health and safety knowledge up to date in line with current legislature, as well as covering any changes to legislation and their...
SigTech Rail attend the RIN Event in York
The team at SigTech Rail attended the RIN rail networking event in York on 18th November. The event was well attended and very well organised as always by the Jobson James Rail team. We also had the chance to catch up with Rose Garber from the Railway Industry Association and have a good catch...