{"id":24,"date":"2021-02-26T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dcsignallingsystems.com.au\/?p=24"},"modified":"2021-02-26T07:15:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T07:15:33","slug":"railway-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dcsignallingsystems.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/02\/26\/railway-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Railway Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" class=\"wp-image-8\" style=\"width: 700px;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dcsignallingsystems.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/duy-hoang-iZofsmjcSHU-unsplash-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dcsignallingsystems.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/duy-hoang-iZofsmjcSHU-unsplash-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/blog.dcsignallingsystems.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/duy-hoang-iZofsmjcSHU-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.dcsignallingsystems.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/duy-hoang-iZofsmjcSHU-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.dcsignallingsystems.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/duy-hoang-iZofsmjcSHU-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><strong>Railway engineering<\/strong>&nbsp;is a multi-faceted&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Engineering\">engineering<\/a>&nbsp;discipline dealing with the design, construction and operation of all types of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rail_transport\">rail transport<\/a>&nbsp;systems. It encompasses a wide range of engineering disciplines, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_engineering\">civil engineering<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computer_engineering\">computer engineering<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electrical_engineering\">electrical engineering<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mechanical_engineering\">mechanical engineering<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Industrial_engineering\">industrial engineering<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Production_engineering\">production engineering<\/a>. A great many other engineering sub-disciplines are also called upon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">With the advent of the railways in the early nineteenth century, a need arose for a specialized group of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Engineer\">engineers<\/a>&nbsp;capable of dealing with the unique problems associated with railway engineering. As the railways expanded and became a major economic force, a great many engineers became involved in the field, probably the most notable in Britain being&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Trevithick\">Richard Trevithick<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Stephenson\">George Stephenson<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel\">Isambard Kingdom Brunel<\/a>. Today, railway systems engineering continues to be a vibrant field of engineering.<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dcsystemservices.com.au\/#facebook\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dcsystemservices.com.au\/#twitter\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dcsystemservices.com.au\/#email\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Email<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share#url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.dcsystemservices.com.au%2Findex.php%2F2021%2F02%2F23%2Fthe-rail-industry%2F&amp;title=The%20Rail%20Industry\">Share<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=The+Rail+Industry&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.dcsystemservices.com.au%2Findex.php%2F2021%2F02%2F23%2Fthe-rail-industry%2F\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Railway engineering&nbsp;is a multi-faceted&nbsp;engineering&nbsp;discipline dealing with the design, construction and<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dcsignallingsystems.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/02\/26\/railway-engineering\/\" class=\"darkbiz-read-more\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-long-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"rise-blocks_total_comments":3,"rise-blocks_categories":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Uncategorized","slug":"uncategorized","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":21,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":21,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Uncategorized","category_nicename":"uncategorized","category_parent":0}],"rise-blocks_excerpt":"Railway engineering&nbsp;is a multi-faceted&nbsp;engineering&nbsp;discipline dealing with the design, construction and operation of all types of&nbsp;rail transport&nbsp;systems. It encompasses a wide range of engineering disciplines, including&nbsp;civil engineering,&nbsp;computer engineering,&nbsp;electrical engineering,&nbsp;mechanical engineering,&nbsp;industrial engineering&nbsp;and&nbsp;production engineering. A great many other engineering sub-disciplines are also called upon. With the advent of the railways in the early nineteenth century, a need arose for a specialized group of&nbsp;engineers&nbsp;capable..","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.dcsignallingsystems.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/duy-hoang-iZofsmjcSHU-unsplash-1-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dcsignallingsystems.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dcsignallingsystems.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dcsignallingsystems.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dcsignallingsystems.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dcsignallingsystems.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dcsignallingsystems.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dcsignallingsystems.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dcsignallingsystems.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dcsignallingsystems.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dcsignallingsystems.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dcsignallingsystems.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}