Electrical research in British Railways

Electrical research on railways covers a very wide range of projects, ranging from gas-discharge physics through communication and computing to heavy-current engineering. It requires the co-ordinated efforts of multidisciplinary teams of engineers, physicists and mathematicians. By extending the technology already developed by the railway industry and introducing new concepts and techniques, these projects hold promise of improving the quality and economy of railways, and of maintaining them as one of the major transport systems.