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The government has announced the 55 projects it intends to finance with nearly £1bn for Round 3 of its ‘Levelling Up Fund’.

This is the third and final round of the £4.8bn promised by the government. The first round, announced in October 2021, saw 105 projects funded with £1.7bn. This was…

All roads at Eurostar’s east London Temple Mills depot have now been upgraded with moveable electrification equipment.

Eurostar’s long-term partnership with overhead lines specialist Furrer+Frey has played a key part in the depot’s gradual upgrade since 2007. The Moveable Conductor Bar electrification equipment installed by Furrer+Frey can be moved out of…

Network Rail’s £249M redevelopment of Gatwick Airport station has opened today after Costain completed its construction.

Designed by Systra, the revamp has added a new, bigger concourse, eight new escalators, five new lifts and four new stairways as well as widening of platform six and refurbishment of the existing station entrance…

Network Rail is considering plans to reopen a rail line in Cambridgeshire that will reconnect the towns of Wisbech and March.

Four separate options are being drawn up which would see rail services return to the Fenland towns which saw their lines closed during the 1960s. The options include a full…

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has rubbished the Department for Transport’s (DfT’s) plan for the private sector to fund the proposed High Speed 2 (HS2) connection from Old Oak Common to Euston station.

In October, the government confirmed the prime minister’s vision of a “Euston Quarter” with a six-platform HS2 station and…

The joint venture in charge of building the new station at Old Oak Common for High Speed 2 has revealed new tender opportunities for the platforms and central core flooring for the West London project.

The JV between Balfour Beatty, Vinci and Systra (BBVS) has published two tender opportunities with a…

National Highways will have to pay £2.5M and carry out a “complex” repair procedure on a bridge in Essex that was struck by an excavator being carried on a lorry.

Severalls Lane Bridge is located on the A12 Colchester Northern Bypass and in March 2020, two of the bridge’s beams were…

Plans for a fully integrated public transport system in Merseyside have moved one step closer with a new agreement with the government.

An agreement has been signed by transport secretary Mark Harper and Liverpool City Region metro mayor Steve Rotheram, committing to the government working in closer collaboration with the…

The cost of building High Speed 2 (HS2) Phase One is moving closer to being less than the benefit it will bring, according to Department for Transport (DfT) analysis, while HS2 Ltd chiefs say the civils contracts give them little leverage to improve contractor performance.

The DfT’s latest assessment has found…

HS2 Ltd will create a new post of chief railway officer and hopes to reform its chief executive’s salary as part of its attempts to keep costs under control.

HS2 Ltd non-executive chair Sir Jon Thompson told parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Thursday, 16 November, that the move was based…