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A 1.1km bridge over the Daugava River in Latvia that combines road and high-speed rail will be constructed as part of the Rail Baltica project.

Rail Baltica is an 870km high-speed electrified rail line connecting Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, with further connections to Finland and Poland. It is the largest infrastructure…

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…

Network Rail has said that ongoing technical surveys on land above a railway tunnel in Cumbria will form part of the investigation into the exact source of water discolouration in Whitehaven Harbour.

Rust-coloured water started entering Whitehaven Harbour at the end of last year from a culvert in Queens Dock. Groundwater…

Network Rail chief executive Andrew Haines has said that closing the Nuneham Viaduct was “absolutely the right decision”.

Haines made the comment on the day of a visit to the works at the viaduct and shared images from the site detailing the damage to the southern abutment that led to the…

Following the first major tunnelling breakthrough on the Brenner Base Tunnel rail project between Austria and Italy at the end of March, project promoter Brenner Base Tunnel Societas Europaea (BBT SE) has awarded another tunnelling contract.

Under the £844M deal, first reported by NCE’s sister title Ground Engineering, the Porr-Marti consortium…

A €44.8M (£39.6M) contract for the design and construction of the first phase of the Rail Baltica’s Ülemiste terminal in Estonia’s capital city Tallinn was awarded to local contractors Merko Ehitus Eesti and KMG Infra.

Rail Baltica is an 870km high-speed electrified rail line connecting Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, with further…

The cost of a new road bridge to be built on the restored Northumberland rail line has risen from £11M estimated in 2021 to £30.6M, with inflation blamed for the cost hike.

In March, the Department for Transport (DfT) confirmed that the Northumberland railway line between Ashington and Newcastle is being…

Despite the pause on construction of High Speed 2's (HS2's) London terminus at Euston, work is progressing on tunnels to facilitate the work with the launch of the third HS2 tunnel boring machine (TBM) in London.

The tunnel is not going to be used by HS2 trains though. It will instead…

India’s Northeast Frontier Railway (NF Railway) is nearing the completion of the world’s tallest pier railway bridge in Manipur, standing 141m above the ground.

The 703m long Noney Bridge crosses River Ijai near the town of Noney will surpass the current record holder, Mala-Rijeka viaduct in Montenegro, which stands 139m above…

A £10M feasibility study for the extension of the Borders Railway from southern Scotland into Cumbria is due to begin "very soon".

The English and Scottish governments first allocated the £10M funding for the study into extending the Borders Railway in 2019 as part of the £394.5M Borderlands Inclusive Growth Deal.…