Nowadays, railway ranks as an environmentally friendly and sustainable form of transport associated with a continuously expanding network. This success, often considered as the second “golden age” of rail, induces a vision of trains that should be quiet and vibrationless (Connolly et al., 2016; Vogiatzis and Kouroussis, 2017b). However, numerous environ-mental technical challenges are associated with rail-way infrastructure, including the assessment of urban railway vibrations and noise (Vogiatzis and Kou-roussis, 2017a).