Transport minister Huw Merriman has met with MPs in Lancashire to discuss the potential reinstatement of passenger services to the northern section of the Ribble Valley line.
The section of the Ribble Valley line north of Blackburn was closed to passenger services in 1962 but remained open for freight. In 1994,…
The Department for Transport (DfT) does not yet have a business case or cost calculations to justify its £2bn pledge for a new Bradford station, but the need for it is clear.
With the cancellation of High Speed 2 (HS2) in October 2023, prime minister Rishi Sunak published the Network North…
The Leader of the Opposition Sir Keir Starmer has said that it would be “impossible” to bring HS2 to the North.
He made the comments during an interview at the Manchester Evening News (MEN) office on Thursday 11 January, confirming that Labour will not order the construction of the second phase…
There is a strong case for constructing a new rail connection for the village of Winchburgh in West Lothian, a report from Systra has concluded.
A vision for a new rail connection for Winchburgh was commissioned by Winchburgh Developments Ltd to demonstrate the community support for a new rail connection in…
Network Rail Consulting’s US office has been awarded a $73.2M (£57.5M) contract to provide systems engineering services to California’s High-Speed Rail programme.
The first dedicated high-speed railway in the USA, California’s high-speed network will see high-speed trains linking the Los Angeles basin with San Francisco, with later branches to Sacramento and…
People in Balsall Common, a village in the West Midlands, are being asked to vote on designs for a viaduct as part of what HS2 calls its “commitment to inclusive design”.
Options will cover the viaducts colour, finish, pattern designs and landscape plans and will go on display at community events…
HS2 main contractor EKFB (Eiffage Kier Ferrovial Bam JV) has commenced sliding sections of deck for the 450m long Wendover Dean viaduct into position, a process that will take a year to complete.
The Wendover Dean viaduct is the first major railway bridge in the UK to be built with a…
A lagoon built by Network Rail to help alleviate flood risk to a railway in Gloucestershire failed during Storm Henk, with the line between Bristol Parkway and Swindon closing for eight days.
It was installed in 2018 by Network Rail in a £5M flood alleviation scheme. Beginning on 1 January, the…
The chair and acting chief executive of HS2 Ltd has said the project’s delays and cost hikes have been partly caused by the government not being able to afford the construction schedule.
Speaking in a Transport Select Committee session on 10 December, HS2 chair Sir Jon Thompson said: “The government itself…
Alstom has announced it has signed a “more than” €500M (£430M) contract with the Royal Commission for AlUla, Saudi Arabia for a battery-powered tram scheme called the Tramway Project.
Alstom said its new 22.4km tram in Saudi Arabia would be the “world's longest battery-powered, catenary-free tramway line” and it would connect…
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