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. Seat covers
  4. Clearances and embankments
  5. Works in the factory

  1. The tunnel project
  2. Tunnel excavation
  3. Traditional excavation methods
  4. Drilling and blasting
  5. Mechanised excavation methods - rock cutters and TBMs

  1. The viaduct project
  2. Regulations and charges
  3. Typologies
  4. The construction of a viaduct
  5. Reception of the viaduct

  1. Components of the layout
  2. Superelevation
  3. Transition curves
  4. Tracing of transition curves
  5. Other transition curves

  1. Ballast. Introduction
  2. Sleepers
  3. Fastening system
  4. Rail and welds
  5. Switchgear and railway installations

  1. First track assembly operations
  2. Track assembly operations (I)
  3. Track assembly operations (II)
  4. Switchgear assembly operations
  5. Track assembly methods

  1. Infrastructure works and coordination with the operation
  2. Commissioning of new infrastructure
  3. Passenger terminals
  4. Freight terminals
  5. Civil protection

  1. Electric railway traction
  2. Railway electrification systems
  3. Electric traction power supply systems
  4. Overhead contact line railway power supply system components
  5. Reference Standard and Energy TSI

  1. Geometric characteristics of the Air Line of Contact
  2. Mechanical characteristics of the Overhead Contact Line
  3. Electrical characteristics of the Overhead Contact Line
  4. Dynamic characteristics of the Air Contact Line
  5. Air Contact Line Design Constraints

  1. Concepts and types of substations
  2. Substation design
  3. Elements of a traction substation
  4. Protective equipment and earth network
  5. Energy remote control

  1. Design parameters for high-speed lines
  2. Metro line design parameters
  3. Tram line design parameters
  4. Railway energy efficiency
  5. Tram-train and tram-train

  1. General
  2. Overall block diagram
  3. Train position detection systems
  4. Signalling systems associated with turnouts and light signalling systems
  5. Level crossing protection

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

  1. Means of transmission by metallic cables
  2. Fibre optic transmission media and radio links
  3. Transport network
  4. PDH Access Network
  5. Voice switching network and data network

  1. Network management and monitoring systems
  2. Voice and data services
  3. Mobile services - train-ground system
  4. Mobile services - GSM-R system
  5. Telecommunications rooms in buildings

  1. Fundamental principles of maintenance
  2. Types of maintenance
  3. Coordination of maintenance and operation and incident management
  4. Track works. Personnel involved, working arrangements and risks
  5. Traffic safety management systems

  1. Slope stability and monitoring elements
  2. Slope protection elements. Metal nets, geotextiles, gabions and shotcrete.
  3. Retaining walls and earth pressures. Rankine theory
  4. Earth thrusts. Coulomb theory and stability of retaining walls.
  5. Embankment stability. Treatments

  1. Infrastructure and superstructure
  2. Drainage maintenance
  3. Tunnels
  4. Singular buildings and drones
  5. Diagnostics and rehabilitation systems

  1. Repair and inspection procedures
  2. Metal bridges
  3. Reinforcement of piles and abutments. Treatments against rust
  4. Concrete structures
  5. Damage categorisation. Main bridge inspections

  1. Historical development of maintenance
  2. Track maintenance scheduling
  3. Operations constituting track maintenance
  4. Typology of partially mechanised track maintenance work
  5. Typology of fully mechanised track maintenance work

  1. Introduction to track equipment maintenance
  2. Ballast, sleepers, fastening systems and track
  3. Maintenance of switches and crossings
  4. Plate track
  5. Latest trends in superstructure maintenance

  1. Butt welding of rails by sputter welding
  2. Aluminium thermal rail welding
  3. Inspections of aluminothermic welds
  4. Ultrasonic detection of rail and weld effects
  5. Typology of fully mechanised track maintenance work

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

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

  1. Supporting pillars and posts
  2. Support bracket assembly
  3. Compensation system
  4. Aerial needles
  5. Sectioning

  1. Introduction to traction substation maintenance
  2. Revisions
  3. Measuring systems and equipment
  4. Tensions
  5. Alternating current substations

  1. Catenary protection systems
  2. Earthing
  3. Grounding installations
  4. Most frequent breakdowns
  5. Assembly and laying of cables

  1. Introduction to railway signalling. CMS TSI
  2. Interlocks. Origins of electrical interlocks
  3. Electronic interlocks
  4. Installations to be controlled by the interlocks
  5. Locking systems

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

  1. Communications and fibre optic cable maintenance
  2. Transport networks. Maintenance of transmission networks and DWDM networks.
  3. Maintenance of radio communications networks. Train-ground and GSM-R
  4. Maintenance of data and voice networks and services
  5. Information and control systems

  1. Earthworks
  2. Layout
  3. High Speed Structures
  4. Tunnels and ancillary works
  5. Developments and innovations in High Speed

  1. Ballastless tracks
  2. Slab tracks
  3. Track materials: ballast and rail
  4. Track materials, sleepers and fasteners
  5. Switchgear and railway installations

  1. High Speed and Overhead Contact Line Electrification
  2. Characteristics of the Air Contact Line and specific equipment
  3. Substations
  4. High Speed Signalling
  5. ERTMS

  1. Comparison in maintenance of High Speed vs. conventional lines.
  2. High Speed infrastructure maintenance
  3. High Speed superstructure maintenance
  4. Maintenance of High Speed electrification
  5. Maintenance of High Speed signalling