For the first time ever, the Republic and Northern Ireland have collaborated on a €35bn (£29.2bn) proposal to revolutionise the railways on both sides of the border.
The ambitious All-Island Rail Review was put together by Arup on behalf of Northern Ireland’s Department for Infrastructure and the Republic of Ireland’s Department…
Northumberland Country Council has announced that construction of three more stations as part of the Northumberland line restoration project will begin as Morgan Sindall Infrastructure has now signed the main construction contract.
The Northumberland railway line between Ashington and Newcastle was closed in 1964 as part of the Beeching cuts. In…
Network Rail will work with SBB, the operator of Switzerland’s national railways, to look at using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to inspect steel bridges and track on the UK network.
Part of Network Rail’s newly formed International Research and Development Partnership Programme (IRDPP), the agreement with SBB will aim to uphold…
More than 500 structures on the railway network have not been examined by Network Rail in over five years.
Network Rail has 70,000 structures to maintain and it is necessary for it to complete the overall examination process at required intervals for each structure, either annually or up to 12 years.…
The construction of the new Edginswell railway station in Torquay, Devon has been delayed, as local authority Torbay Council seeks to address a £10M gap in funding for the project.
Part ofthe Torquay Gateway project on the western edge of Torquay, the new station would be the third for the town.…
Automated production of over 83,000 concrete tunnel segments for High Speed 2 (HS2) has begun at a new facility at Hartlepool Docks in County Durham.
A portion of the tunnel segments will be used to construct 8km of twin bored tunnel for the Euston tunnel between Old Oak Common and Euston…
High Speed 2 (HS2) Ltd has launched the procurement process for a specialist contractor to deliver platform edge doors at its Old Oak Common and Interchange stations.
The contract opportunity is for a framework agreement that covers platform barrier and automatic doors along the edge of the platforms. These will line…
UK Export Finance (UKEF), the UK government’s export credit agency, has unlocked a €781M (£680M) loan to fund the Mersin-Adana-Gaziantep High Speed Railway in southern Türkiye.
Able to carry trains travelling up to 200 km/h, the high-speed railway will reduce the travel time from the dry port of Gaziantep – via…
The Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) has said that delivery of High Speed 2 (HS2) Phases One and 2a appears unachievable, while East West Rail’s (EWR’s) outlook has improved.
The IPA is the government’s centre of expertise for infrastructure and major projects and it has released its Annual Report on Major…
A 32km section of railway in north west London on both the Bakerloo line and London Overground will undergo a five-week maintenance programme beginning this weekend.
Network Rail engineers will conduct the “essential railway” upgrades from Sunday 23 July to 25 August resulting in closures on the two lines. These upgrades…
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