RS Report highlights challenges facing rail engineers and maintainers

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RS’ recently launched report ‘UK Rail - An Industry Review’ presents a current snapshot of the state of play of the rail industry. And it offers some solutions to how engineers can make the railways fit for the growing and evolving demand

Engineers and maintainers working in a variety of industries will be facing challenges caused by dwindling labour resources, skills shortages, ageing assets, and availability and accessibility of maintenance products. But for those working in the rail industry, there are many more challenges atop these: extreme weather, pressure to be more sustainable and ever-growing demand on the services.

This year marks the bicentenary of rail in the UK, with the steam-powered Locomotion No.1 train journey by George Stephenson in September 1825 cited as the start of the railway network. Much has changed over the last two centuries, although in some places, the infrastructure built in the early decades of the network is what the service still operates on today. This means engineers are tackling ageing assets and trying to adapt them to the rigours of the modern world. 

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