A Balfour Beatty led team has completed intensive works to connect the West Coast Main Line with a huge under-construction logistics hub in Northampton.
The Central Rail System Alliance consortium – which also features consultants Atkins, systems specialist TSO and operator Network Rail – installed new track, points and signalling gear…
Approval has been given for a disused railway in Somerset to be converted into a new active travel path that will traverse two historic viaducts and a tunnel.
Somerset Council’s planning committee has granted planning permission for a 2.4km walking and cycling path along the former Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway.…
Aecom has been appointed to design infrastructure for a 30km section of Sweden’s new 270km North Bothnia high-speed rail line.
The North Bothnia line is being promoted by Swedish Transport Administration, Trafikverket, and will run along Sweden’s east coast from Luleå in the north to Umeå in the south. The project…
Network Rail has been fined £6.7M for its failings leading to the fatal train derailment near Stonehaven, Scotland in 2020.
The derailment of a train at Carmont, near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire on 12 August 2020 saw driver Brett McCullough, 45, conductor Donald Dinnie, 58, and passenger Christopher Stuchbury, 62, killed and six…
Lancashire County Council has granted planning permission for a new railway station 4km from Preston city centre.
The plans will see Cottam Parkway built as a two platform station on the Blackpool to Preston railway line, complete with a new station building, as well as a forecourt and a footbridge over…
Mace Dragados JV (MDJV) has completed the new Traction Substation (TSS) at High Speed 2's (HS2's) Euston station ahead of work on site pausing for two years.
The new TSS will house equipment to support the running of the London Underground’s Northern line. It is the first above ground structure completed…
John Sisk & Son (Sisk) has been appointed to remove a road bridge as well as conduct other highways works in a £7.8M contract as part of the York Station Gateway project.
The scheme will see Sisk remove Queen Street bridge, realign Queen Street, construct a new public realm known as…
A major railway enhancement and electrification project between East Kilbride and Glasgow has had its £140M funding confirmed by the Scottish Government.
Scottish transport minister Fiona Hyslop approved the funding for the East Kilbride Enhancement Project, which will see the full 11km East Kilbride to Glasgow Central route electrified. The project…
Designs for High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) planned Balsall Common Viaduct in Warwickshire have gained council approval with caveats concerning the appearance of the structure, as well as nearby tree planting.
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council’s planning committee meeting on 6 September approved HS2’s plans for the 425m long viaduct, which have drawn…
The Mayor of London has voiced support for a southern rail link between Heathrow Airport, south London and Surrey, a scheme that was originally announced in 2016.
In a written question, the London Assembly Liberal Democrat leader Caroline Pidgeon asked Sadiq Khan if he supported the scheme and if any conversations…
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