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Woven Light Rail Design wins Gold at JEC World 2020 Innovation Awards

The BRAINSTORM project, which saw partners from Far-UK, Composite Braiding, TDI and WMG at the University of Warwick create a woven braided carbon fibre composite frame for a Very-Light Rail (VLR), has won gold at the JEC World 2020 Innovation awards in the Category “Railway Vehicles and Infrastructure.”

Fri 15 May 2020, 09:41 | Tags: WMG, Engineering, VLR, transport, Sciences

Innovative Partner Awarded Contract to develop Very Light Rail trackform

The Coventry Very Light Rail project is about to embark on a new adventure, investigating how to create a low cost trackform for the light rail carriages already in development, thanks to £1.5m funding from West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), secured by CCC. This project aims to revolutionise affordable public transport in towns and cities.

Thu 30 Apr 2020, 17:14 | Tags: WMG, Engineering, council, Coventry, Coventry VLR, transport, Sciences