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Network Rail and Story Contracting will begin work on three rail bridges in the Hairmyres as part of the East Kilbride enhancement project.

The bridge works will form part of a larger £139.8M electrification of major rail lines from the Scottish Government. According to the network operator, two of the bridges…

The Department for Transport (DfT) has reiterated its commitment to funding several transport interventions in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in its long-awaited response to Sir Peter Hendy’s Union Connectivity Review.

The Network Rail chair published his report into how to boost transport links between the UK's four nations in November…

The mayors of the West Midlands and Manchester, with support from Arup, have formed a private sector group to explore how rail connectivity can be improved between their two regions.

Mayors Andy Street and Andy Burnham convened the first meeting on 1 December, chaired by infrastructure expert and former non-executive chairman…

US president Joe Biden has announced a further $3.1bn (£2.5bn) for the California High-Speed Rail scheme, the latest in a year that has seen many governmental sums afforded to rail projects in the United States.

The federal funding has been announced following a steady year in the development of the first phase…

A landslip has closed South Western Railway (SWR) services between Salisbury and Exeter as Network Rail engineers attempt to remove 100t of material from a tunnel entrance.

Trains on the SWR line will not run until next Monday, 11 December, as clay, soil and vegetation must be removed from the Crewkerne…

While a lot of attention has been paid to how the money due to be spent on Phase 2 of HS2 will be reallocated to projects under the banner of Network North, construction on the Phase 1 section from Old Oak Common in west London to Birmingham has continued at…

A Northamptonshire viaduct has become the first on the HS2 project to have all its deck beams installed.

The 163m long Highfurlong Brook Viaduct, near the village of Aston le Walls, is one of more than 50 major viaducts being built as part of the rail project between London and Birmingham.…

Network Rail is launching a masterplanning process around Cardiff Central Station that will see the design and redevelopment of over 4ha of railway land and the delivery of new homes.

Cardiff Central currently attracts 13M passengers a year and acts as a vital gateway to the city centre. The masterplanning process is…

The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced a further £3.9bn will be injected into the underway Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) rail project, taking the total government funding to £6.9bn.

The upgrade of the 122km-long rail link in the north of England, which connects Manchester in the west and York in the…

The search has begun for a contractor to conduct enabling works for the HS2’s Automated People Mover (APM) between Solihull and Birmingham.

The APM will be an elevated mass transit system designed to transport passengers between the Interchange Station in Solihull, the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), Birmingham International Railway Station and…