1. Railway projects
  2. Quality management in railway projects
  3. Environmental management in railway projects
  4. Health and safety management in railway projects
  5. Intermodality

  1. Geological and geotechnical phases
  2. Constitution of the platform
  3. Platform protective layers. Settlement layers
  4. Cuts and embankments
  5. Engineering structures

  1. The project of a tunnel
  2. Excavation of a tunnel
  3. Traditional excavation methods
  4. Drilling and blasting
  5. Mechanised excavation methods: headers and tbms

  1. Viaduct project
  2. Regulations and loads
  3. Typologies
  4. Viaduct construction
  5. Viaduct reception

  1. Layout components
  2. Qty
  3. Transition curves
  4. Layout of transition curves
  5. Other transition curves

  1. Ballast. Introduction
  2. Sleepers
  3. Fastening System
  4. Rail and welding
  5. Switches and crossings and railway installations

  1. Initial track assembly operations
  2. Track assembly operations (I)
  3. Track assembly operations (II)
  4. Track devices assembly operations
  5. Track assembly methods

  1. Infrastructure and coordination works with rail operations
  2. Commissioning of new infrastructures
  3. Passenger terminals
  4. Freight terminals
  5. Civil protection

  1. Railway electric traction
  2. Railway electrification systems
  3. Electric traction supply systems
  4. Components of the railway power supply system by overhead contact line
  5. Reference regulations and energy TSI

  1. Geometric characteristics of the overhead contact line
  2. Mechanical characteristics of the overhead contact line
  3. Electrical characteristics of the overhead contact line
  4. Dynamic characteristics of the overhead contact line
  5. Constraints in the design of overhead contact line

  1. Concepts and types of substations
  2. Design of a substation
  3. Elements of a traction substation
  4. Protective equipment in direct current outputs
  5. Energy remote monitoring

  1. Design parameters of high-speed lines
  2. Design parameters of metro lines
  3. Design parameters of tram lines
  4. Energy efficiency of the railway
  5. Tram-train and tram

  1. General considerations
  2. Block assembly diagram
  3. Train position detection systems
  4. Signaling systems associated with turnouts and light signaling systems
  5. Level crossing protection

  1. General considerations
  2. ASFA
  3. The LZB system
  4. ERTMS
  5. The CBTC signalling system on metropolitan railways

  1. Means of transmission by metallic cables
  2. Means of transmission by fibre optics and radio links
  3. Transport network
  4. PDH access network
  5. Voice switched network and data network

  1. Management network and supervision systems
  2. Voice and data services
  3. Mobile services (I). Train-ground system
  4. Mobile services (II). GSM-R system
  5. Telecommunications rooms in buildings

  1. Fundamental principles of maintenance
  2. Types of maintenance
  3. Coordination of maintenance and exploitation and incident management
  4. Works on the track. Personnel involved, work regimen and risks
  5. Traffic safety management systems

  1. Stability of slopes and evaluation elements
  2. Slope protection elements: metal nets, geotextiles, gabions and shotcrete
  3. Retaining walls and earth pressure. Rankine theory
  4. Earth pressure: coulomb theory and stability of retaining walls
  5. Stability of embankments. Treatments

  1. Infrastructure and superstructure
  2. Drain maintenance
  3. Tunnels maintenance
  4. Unique buildings and drones
  5. Diagnosis and rehabilitation systems

  1. Repair and inspection procedures
  2. Metal bridges
  3. Reinforcements in piers and abutments. Treatments against oxidation
  4. Concrete structures
  5. Categorization of damage. Main inspections on bridges

  1. Historical evolution of maintenance
  2. Track maintenance programming
  3. Operations constituting the conservation of the track
  4. Typology of partially mechanized track maintenance work
  5. Type of fully mechanized track maintenance work

  1. Introduction to the maintenance of track components
  2. The ballast, the sleepers, the fastening systems and the rail
  3. Maintenance of track components (switches and crossings)
  4. Slab track
  5. Latest trends in superstructure maintenance

  1. Flash-butt electric welding for rails
  2. Aluminothermic rail welding
  3. Inspections of aluminothermic weldings
  4. Ultrasonic detection of rails and welding effects
  5. Type of fully mechanized track maintenance work

  1. Concept of track quality and quality quantification
  2. Geometric and dynamic track auscultation
  3. Analysis of geometric auscultation results: safety and comfort
  4. Analysis of geometric auscultation results: rolling surface condition - wave wear
  5. Analysis of the geometric auscultation results: rolling surface condition - vertical, lateral and total wear; average track gauge definition

  1. Maintenance of the overhead contact line
  2. Types of overhead contact line maintenance
  3. Overhead contact line maintenance planning
  4. Objectives, maintenance indicators and advanced maintenance of the overhead contact line
  5. Geometrical and dynamic catenary monitoring

  1. Support blocks and posts
  2. Support corbel assembly
  3. Compensation system
  4. Overhead switches
  5. Overlapping

  1. Introduction to traction substation maintenance
  2. Checks
  3. Measurement systems and equipment
  4. Voltages
  5. Alternating current substations

  1. Catenary protection systems
  2. Grounding
  3. Installation of a grounding system
  4. Most frequent malfunctions
  5. Assembly and laying of cables

  1. Introduction to railway signalling. TSI on CCS
  2. Lockout devices. Origins of Electrical Interlocks
  3. Electronic interlockings
  4. Installations to be controlled by the interlockings
  5. Signalling Block Systems

  1. Introduction to train detection systems. SIL
  2. Track circuits separated by insulating rail joints
  3. Train detection by axle counters
  4. Half-barrier protection systems
  5. Maintenance and troubleshooting in level crossings

  1. Introduction to ATP systems. EBICAB900 system
  2. The LZB system. Maintenance
  3. ERTMS system. Maintenance
  4. General description of the safety remote control
  5. Remote control subsystems

  1. Communications and fibre optical cable maintenance
  2. Transportation Networks. Maintenance of Transmission Networks and DWDM networks
  3. Maintenance of radio communications networks. Train-Earth and GSM-r
  4. Maintenance of networks and data and voice services
  5. Information and control systems