Rail operator

National Railway Digital Twin

A 752-kilometre railway is a hard thing to see all at once. This twin lets an operator watch the whole corridor breathe from one room: every train, every station, every sensor, in real time, on a wall.

Industry
Rail operator
Type
Digital Twin
Role
Design lead, environment, real-time
Tools
Unreal Engine, Cesium, Omniverse, Node.js
Period
2026
National Railway Digital Twin image 1
National Railway Digital Twin image 2

The corridor at a glance

The full length of the line, rendered on real terrain, with live positions of every train and the state of every station.

Live, not recorded

Sensor data streams into the model as it happens, so what the operator sees on the wall is what is happening on the track.

Built for the control room

Pixel-streamed to a video wall, driven from a touch console, and designed to be read from across the room.

Closing thoughts

The hard part of a twin is not the model, it is trust. Operators only use a copy that behaves like the real thing. Everything in this project served that.

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