WITHOUT WELL BEARING FORMATION AND CLEAN BALLAST-BED NO STABLE RAILROAD Poor Quality Rail-Tracks in Sri Lanka

The Railway-Tracks of Srilankan Railways are a shining teaching sample that a long-lasting well aligned rail-track, matching the traffic load it has to carry, is not possible without a well drained and well bearing Formation, a thick Formation Protective Layer (FPL, “Blanket” or “Sub-Ballast”) and a proper and clean Ballast-Bed. The memory for the track […]

CULTURE OF ERROR AND RISK MANAGEMENT IN RAILWAY COMPANIES – LEARNING FROM THE AVIATION INDUSTRIES

The paper is based on the publication of  Dipl. Ing Karoly Obrecht and Dr. Bernhard Rüger: FEHLERKULTUR BEI EISENBAHNEN – NOTWENDIGKEIT UND CHANCE ZUR ERHÖHUNG DER SICHERTHEIT in Eisenbahn Technische Rundschau, ETR, Juni 2018, p. 42, eurailpress, DVV Media Group, Hamburg, Germany, ISSN 0013-2845. At the centre of the modern proactive, precautionary and generative culture […]