Plans for a new Mid Cornwall Metro have been given the green light by the council's cabinet.
At a meeting last week, Cornwall cabinet members agreed to provisionally accept the offer of £50M levelling up funding towards the delivery of the £56.8M Mid Cornwall Metro initiative. Working with delivery partners Great…
The Department for Transport (DfT) has approved a funding package worth £250M for Transport for London (TfL) to cover the 2024/2025 tax year.
This amounts to just over half of London mayor Sadiq Khan’s £475M request. In a letter written to Khan, transport secretary Mark Harper confirmed the funding package to…
Innovations to accelerate track laying, rail welding and automate cable installation are among technologies aiming to be deployed during delivery of HS2.
Four technologies and the companies behind them have been selected as part of a government rail innovation competition. The winners are Mirage, Mobibiz, I3D Robotics and Geokod Rail. The…
Network Rail is to begin a major overhaul of Stoke-on-Trent station this Christmas period that will include a “once in a generation” renewal of its extensive glazing.
The multi million pound project will see glazing at both ends of the station, which span 25m over the tracks on the north and…
A campaign organisation is on the brink of taking legal action against the government over the cancellation of HS2 Phase 2a, but the prime minister has pointed the finger at the transport secretary for the decision.
The Good Law Project has written to the government legal department to inform it that…
The UK’s independent public spending watchdog has said it is not clear how the East West Rail (EWR) project will provide benefit nor how it aligns with the government’s growth plans.
EWR is a £6-7bn project to build a brand new railway between Oxford and Cambridge, linking up several smaller settlements…
The Labour party has convened an expert panel to review the rail sector and identify areas for improvement prior to the forthcoming general election.
It is being headed up by Jürgen Maier, who is the vice-chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership and chair of the Digital Catapult. He was formerly chief…
HS2 has replicated the designs of its Thame Valley viaduct for another viaduct project in Northamtonshire, resulting in a 13% reduction in carbon compared to the previous design.
A lighter, modular design for the Edgcote viaduct will cut the amount of concrete and steel needed for the viaduct, with elements being…
Network Rail is gearing up to deliver key upgrades to the route network in Yorkshire over the Christmas period.
The rail infrastructure operators will be undertaking work between Christmas eve and Wednesday 27 December on projects in York and Selby, which aim to improve services and reliability. At York railway station,…
The Department for Transport's long-awaited response to the Union Connectivity Review saw it committing to some schemes but completely overlooking other recommended transport interventions around the UK.
In November 2021, Network Rail chair Sir Peter Hendy published the Union Connectivity Review, a government-commissioned report into ways to improve transport connectivity and boost economic…
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