The Rail Safety and Standards Board is collaborating with the University of Sheffield on AI technology to predict low adhesion track conditions.
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Researchers from the University of Sheffield are working with US-based CO2Rail Company to design direct air capture equipment that can be used within special rail cars to scrub carbon dioxide from the air. The special rail cars are designed to be placed with already running trains in regular service.
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Speaking at NCE's Future of Bridge's conference, University of Sheffield Integrated Civil and Infratructure Research Centre director Matthew Gilbert highlighted National Highways' approach to bridge infilling as 'inappropriate'.
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The project - backed by York, Leeds and Sheffield Universities - will 'examine the economic, social and infrastructural legacy of steam and slavery across the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries'.
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British Steel and the University of Sheffield have announced a multi-million-pound research and development programme which will see steel tested at the universitys Faculty of Engineering and the steelmaker's R&D facility at the Advanced Manufacturing Park in Rotherham.
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Researchers from the University of Sheffield, in collaboration with Icetech Technologies, have used dry ice to develop a new solution to the problem of leaves on the line, which cause delays, cancellations and timetable changes for rail passengers.

Millions of trees line the 20,000 miles of rail track in the UK, shedding an estimated 50 million leaves onto the tracks every autumn. As the leaves fall onto the rails, they are compacted under the weight of trains into a smooth, slippery layer sticking to the tracks and causing trains to lose their grip the rail equivalent of black ice on the roads.
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