Geofencing technology will be implemented on London's Docklands Light Railway (DLR) to improve track worker safety.
KeolisAmey Docklands, operator of the DLR on behalf of Transport for London (TfL), has joined forces with tech start-up Tended to provide the technology for trackside teams working on the railway. The innovation will…
The East Coast Main Line will see a number of upcoming closures as a £5.7M upgrade project from Network Rail has begun.
During the project 750m of drainage improvements at various locations between Reston and Drem will be completed to stabilise an embankment. Engineers will also replace 6km of worn railway…
Proposals for the redevelopment of the Ivanhoe Line will not see passenger railway reinstated all the way to Leicester, Network Rail has revealed.
The “significant infrastructure investment” required for the section of line between Coalville and Leicester South has seen the final section scrapped from Network Rail’s current plans. The transport…
Passenger tram services on the new West Midlands Metro extension in Wolverhampton city centre began yesterday, Sunday 17 September.
The £50M extension has created two new tram stops at Pipers Row and Wolverhampton Railway Station, offering connections to bus and train services and helping to create a major public transport hub…
Network Rail has awarded the second of two contracts to build the new railway station for Chelmsford’s Beaulieu Park development to J Murphy and Sons.
This follows a recent agreement between Network Rail and Essex County Council to complete the construction of the new station. The £124M contract includes main construction…
A group of representatives in the Oxford-Cambridge Arc including MPs, councillors and campaign groups has delivered a declaration of opposition to East West Rail’s (EWR’s) route between Bedford and Cambridge to the rail minister.
EWR is a new railway line between Oxford and Cambridge that will link up many small communities…
Network Rail is undertaking a £3.8M refurbishment of the 193-year-old Sankey Viaduct in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, ahead of its 200th anniversary.
According to Network Rail, the Grade I listed viaduct’s opening in 1830 forged the world’s first intercity passenger route connecting Manchester and Liverpool “with a regular timetable as we’d recognise today”.…
Prime minister Rishi Sunak and chancellor Jeremy Hunt are in discussions over whether to cancel Phase 2 of High Speed 2 (HS2) to save money and provide economic headroom.
The Independent reports that it has seen a cost estimate showing that £2.3bn has been spent on Phase 2 of the high-speed…
Works to assemble High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) 2.7km Greatworth ‘green tunnel’, the longest of its type for the project’s Phase 1, have commenced in West Northamptonshire.
A total of five green tunnels are to be constructed for this phase. They are being built using a ‘cut and cover’ process, which involves…
The TRU East Alliance, working together with Active Tunnelling, has completed three new drainage tunnels beneath the railway line at Ulleskelf Mires in North Yorkshire.
NCE sister title Ground Engineering reports that, as part of the work, three tunnel boring machines (TBMs) worked simultaneously side by side beneath the four track…
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