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A reliability study of railway switch and crossing components (2022)
Journal Article
Litherland, J., & Andrews, J. (2022). A reliability study of railway switch and crossing components. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, https://doi.org/10.1177/09544097221100672

Within any railway network Switches and Crossings (S&C) are essential. They allow trains to change tracks, allowing different routes to be selected. Despite their necessity, they generally have a lower reliability than plain line track and are often... Read More about A reliability study of railway switch and crossing components.

A petri net methodology for modelling the maintenance of railway route sections (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Litherland, J., & Andrews, J. (2019). A petri net methodology for modelling the maintenance of railway route sections. In M. Beer, & E. Zio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2019), 452-460. https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-11-2724-3_+0137-cd

Railway utilization is increasing. In 2017-18 there were over 1.7 billion passenger journeys made on the UK railway network, more than double the number made in 1995. Therefore getting maximum performance from the existing network by streamlining mai... Read More about A petri net methodology for modelling the maintenance of railway route sections.

Development of an extended RAMS framework for railway networks (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Litherland, J., Calvert, G., Andrews, J., & Kirwan, A. (2019). Development of an extended RAMS framework for railway networks. In M. Beer, & E. Zio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2019), 3489-3497. https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-11-2724-3_+0124-cd

Railway asset managers have finite resources which requires them to make strategic decisions on where, when and how the available budget will be spent on the railway, while ensuring safety limits are maintained and a high level of performance is deli... Read More about Development of an extended RAMS framework for railway networks.