The Railway Challenge, organised by our Railway Division, provides a brilliant opportunity for aspiring teams to compete in yet another challenging industry-specific competition, showcasing their skills, expertise, knowledge, and business acumen.
Each annual Challenge cycle kicks-off in October, ending with a final event in late June/early July of the following year.
The Challenge, now in its fourteenth successive year, continues to bring together teams of university students, as well as apprentices and graduates working in industry across the world to test their business knowledge, design ability and technical skills in a live test environment.
Participants are required to design and manufacture a miniature (10¼” inch gauge) railway locomotive in accordance with a set of strict rules and a detailed technical specification. The locomotives will be tested live at the competition weekend, which takes place in June/July at Stapleford Miniature Railway in Leicestershire, where several categories of winners and an overall Railway Challenge champion will be crowned.
University Name
Team Name
Anglia Ruskin University
Team Heron
ESTACA
GWRC
FH Aachen
Fh2rail
Heriot-Watt and Network Rail
Scotland’s Railway Challenge
Monash University
Monash Railway Express
Network Rail and Colas Rail
Newcastle University
Newcastle Locomotive
Poznan University of Technology
PUTrain
Siemens Mobility Limited
Team Siemens
Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm
EAGLE
The University of Sheffield
Railway Challenge at Sheffield
Transport for London
University of Birmingham
Team EcoLoco
University of Cambridge
Cambridge University Locomotive Engineers' Society
University of Derby/Alstom
The Derby Express
University of Huddersfield
HUDRail
University of Warwick
Warwick Rail
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