The UK must radically ramp up its rail electrification programme, a key figure has urged, after data revealed the sustainability benefits of traveling by train.
Richard Hebditch, director at campaign group Transport and Environment UK, called for a major initiative to move away from diesel engines on the network. He was…
The railway linking Cardiff and the Rhondda Valley is to close for up to eight months in order to undergo significant upgrades.
Transport for Wales (TfW) said The Rhondda Valley Line will close from the end of this month until the end of the year, in a project that will include…
Croatia is to press ahead with a €4bn (£3.5bn) investment into its rail infrastructure over the next decade.
Speaking at a conference marking 10 years of liberalised rail transport, minister in charge of sea, transport and infrastructure Alen Gospočić said there “had never been as much investment in railway infrastructure as…
Network Rail has begun a £3.5M programme to improve the heavy rain resilience of the railway between the North Lanarkshire villages of Croy and Dullatur.
The project, which will last nine months, will see Network Rail and rail contractor QTS carry out work between the two villages to help prevent the…
The railway between Didcot Parkway and Oxford will be closed “until at least late April” as investigations into movement on the Nuneham Viaduct continue.
The viaduct was closed on 3 April after Network Rail’s monitoring equipment installed at the site showed increasing movement in the structure. Movement from the Nuneham Viaduct…
Network Rail will be carrying out stabilisation and widening of an embankment on the railway to the north of Martlesham, on the East Suffolk Line; the work is scheduled to start tomorrow and run until to 6 April.
The improvements need to be completed before 1.6km of worn-out track on top…
The team tasked with delivering High Speed 2’s (HS2's) next tunnelling scheme is recruiting 100 employees to new roles on the construction of the 5.6km long tunnel between Warwickshire and Birmingham; the news comes in the same week as the announcement of significant redundancies at HS2’s Euston station site.
The Warwickshire-Birmingham…
Digital tools have been used to manage the risk and plan Scotland’s largest rail enhancement project – now work is about to begin on site in earnest.
From tomorrow (4 March), train passengers who travel regularly to Glasgow or Edinburgh on the West Coast Main Line (WCML) might notice slightly different…
While debate about the final scope on High Speed 2 rages, demand for restoring local rail connections is gaining traction.
As plans to scale back High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) design hit the headlines in February, chancellor Jeremy Hunt revealed his ambition to have a network of high speed rail links…
Historically the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) has been the UK’s biggest infrastructure project that nobody had ever heard of, according to Network Rail TRU managing director Neil Holm.
“That’s changed a lot in the last year,” he adds pointing to the project’s inclusion in the government’s Integrated Rail Plan, published in…
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