Responding to the Environmental Noise Directive by demonstrating the benefits of rail grinding on the GB railway network: London Branch meeting

摘要

With the government's announcement on the new High Speed Two rail links, perhaps rail noise has never been higher on the public agenda. So Oliver Bewes's presentation to the London Branch in January could not have been better timed. Ask the man on the street what springs to mind with the word "railway noise" and he probably will still respond "clackety clack", despite the fact that we've been welding railway track in miles lengths in the UK for decades. Nevertheless, the contact noise between wheel and track is the most important noise source associated with the GB railway network.