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Register your Entry Level teams for Railway Challenge 2025

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Siemens Mobility Ltd, Entry Level class winners at Railway Challenge 2024 - register your team for 2025's competition
Siemens Mobility Ltd, Entry Level class winners at Railway Challenge 2024 - register your team for 2025's competition

For institutions which have not previously participated in the Railway Challenge, please note that you have until 5 February 2025 to enter an Entry Level team for this year’s competition.

The Entry Level option is only open for teams from institutions which have not previously participated in the competition and the intention is that this provides teams with a stepping stone towards a full entry in a future year, where it may seem too daunting to both design and construct a locomotive within a single year.

Teams taking the Entry Level option are not required to manufacture a locomotive being only required to submit a design of their proposed loco. The design must follow all rules of the main competition, but Entry Level teams must also submit a CAD model to demonstrate the overall structure of their locomotive and a more detailed design of one chosen sub-system. Entry Level teams are still expected to compete in all the other presentation challenges.

To register your Entry Level team, simply complete the registration form on the Railway Challenge website, download the competition documents and gather your team to start designing your locomotive!

Railway Challenge 2025 Entry and Standard Level teams:

University Name Team Name Level
Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm EAGLE Standard
University of Huddersfield HudRail Standard
Network Rail & Colas Rail Network Rail & Colas Rail Standard
The University of Sheffield Railway Challenge at Sheffield Standard
Poznan University of Technology PUTrain Standard
Heriot-Watt/Network-Rail Scotland's Railway Challenge Standard
Transport for London Transport for London Standard
University of Warwick Warwick Rail Standard
Newcastle University Newcastle Locomotive Standard
FH Aachen fh2rail Standard
University of Derby / Alstom The Derby Express Standard
University of Birmingham Team EcoLoco Standard
ESTACA GWRC Entry
Anglia Ruskin University Team Heron Entry
Monash University Monash Railway Express Entry
Siemens Mobility Team Siemens Standard
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur TeamTRAK Standard
University of Cambridge Cambridge University Locomotive Engineers' Society Entry


Watch the all of the recordings from the Railway Challenge 2025 Team Networking Day to ensure your project starts off in the best way possible: 

  • Introduction and Updates
  • Optional Challenges and Ride-on Locos
  • Feedback from Teams
  • Competition Logistics, Submissions and Vehicle Dynamics

The recordings are now available to view on-demand on the Institution’s YouTube channel by clicking here.

All participants are encouraged to follow the Railway Challenge’s LinkedInTwitterFacebook social media channels and Challenge website for updates on the competition and teams’ locomotives, and we wish all teams who have registered the best successes with their projects.

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