Financially strained Thurrock Council must find a further £5.6M if it is to deliver the promised Stanford-le-Hope station upgrade, council documents reveal.
Thurrock Council declared effective bankruptcy in December 2022 after amassing a £500M debt pile. An official government review into the failures of the council found that it had put…
National Infrastructure Commission chair Sir John Armitt, Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, former chancellor George Osborne and former HS2 Ltd chairmen are among the cacophony of voices reacting negatively to reports that the government is to scrap or significantly delay the construction of High Speed 2 (HS2) north of Birmingham.
Reports that…
Network Rail has installed the footbridge at Cameron Bridge Station as part of the new £116M Levenmouth Rail Link development.
The latest step forward for the Scottish Government-funded project comes after track installation was completed last month. The scheme will see passenger trains return to the Levenmouth branch line for the…
A privately owned railway has started an eco-friendly high-speed service today, 22 September, between Orlando and Miami in Florida, USA, having taken four years and $5bn (£4bn) to construct.
Brightlink has built 274km of new track and 56 bridges since 2019 to extend its service, which previously stopped at West Palm…
A joint venture of local contractors Zublin and Max Bögl has made the final breakthrough on the mammoth Stuttgart 21 tunneling project, which has featured eight tunnels totalling 56km.
The consortium completed boring of a €500M (£430M) section of the line connecting the southern German city to its airport and nearby…
The judges for this year’s NCE Graduate & Apprentice Awards have carefully reviewed the 118 entries and the shortlist for the three categories has been revealed.
This year will be the 26th edition of the awards, which are celebrating the talent of those early in their careers in the civil engineering sector.…
Ground investigations are underway at the site of a proposed new £23M railway station in Haxby, North Yorkshire.
City of York Council says it is working with Network Rail and the Department for Transport (DfT) to fulfil what it describes as “a decades-long ambition” to reinstate a railway station at Haxby…
A statutory inquiry into the long delayed and hugely overbudget Edinburgh Tram project has revealed extensive mistakes and mismanagement by Transport Initiatives Edinburgh (Tie), the delivery company set up and wholly owned by City of Edinburgh Council (CEC).
The Edinburgh Tram project was intended to be a new 18.5km light rail…
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) now expects Network Rail’s Control Period 6 (CP6), April 2019 – March 2024, efficiencies target to be exceeded, whereas it had previously raised concerns about the rail body’s progress.
However, the regulator is concerned about the rail operator's overall financial status. Efficiencies ORR's April…
A section of Botley Road beneath a railway bridge next to Oxford station will remain closed until October 2024 due to “unique challenges” in the £161M station works, Network Rail has confirmed.
The road had been due to reopen next month after completing the diversion of 11 different utility services. It…
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