SLC Rail has been appointed to deliver design studies for two new train stations within the proposal to reopen the Cowley Branch line in Oxfordshire to passenger services.
Oxford City Council approved funding worth £498,799 for SLC Rail to undertake infrastructure place study work as part its plan to reinstate the…
The Rail Baltica project has seen contracts for mainline construction in Latvia and Estonia agreed ahead of work starting this year.
Rail Baltica is an 870km high-speed electrified rail line connecting Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, with potential further connections to Finland and Poland. It is the largest infrastructure project in the…
A road bridge over the railway in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, has been strengthened with foam concrete to prepare for upcoming works for High Speed 2 (HS2).
The strengthening involved filling the structure’s three arches with foamed concrete. This work, which was part funded by HS2, will remove the weight limit that was…
£5bn of new contracts are to be let over the course of 2024 by HS2 Ltd as it says it has hit “peak construction” of the rail project.
It heralded a “giant step forward” for the project and listed a series of achievements so far, as well as work expected to…
The government’s sudden commitment to growing rail freight by 75% by 2050 is welcome, even though this amounts to only just over 2% per year. But how is it to be achieved? After all, rail freight is catered for by private operators in a free market. Government is an enabler,…
The next phase of Huddersfield station’s redevelopment as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) will begin next week on Monday, 8 January.
While work has already begun to improve facilities for passengers inside Huddersfield station, this next phase of work will involve work on the outside of the building. Through…
New design images illustrating a revamped Witton station in Birmingham have been revealed by the West Midlands Rail Executive (WMRE).
The plans follow the completion of a feasibility study which was commissioned by the WMRE and found that an upgrade is advised as the nearby stadium Villa Park prepares to host…
Over the festive period, Network Rail will be investing £127M in a range of projects to upgrade the rail network around England and Scotland.
Although, more than 96% of the rail network will be open for “business as usual” over the Christmas and New Year period, there are a number of…
Sinkholes, abandoned rail links and beavers all feature in New Civil Engineer’s Top 10 most read stories of 2023.
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Engineers have installed the final pieces of rail track to create a new passing loop on the Hope Valley railway line, which will remove a longstanding bottleneck.
The work, being carried out by a joint venture between VolkerRail and Story Contracting on behalf of Network Rail, has seen 850m of new…
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