Two potential locations have been identified for the construction of a new railway station as part of a project to reinstate an abandoned Leicestershire railway.
The locations for Coalville’s potential future train station would sit on a restored Ivanhoe Line running between Leicester and Burton. The Ivanhoe Line was closed to…
An abandoned passenger railway line in Leicestershire has been backed to be restored by local business leaders.
The Ivanhoe Line was closed to passengers in the 1960s when chairman of British Railways at the time Richard Beeching axed it in his infamous self-titled report. Connecting Burton-upon-Trent with Leicester, the 50km route…
Network Rail is today beginning a 15-day programme of engineering works on the recently recommissioned Dartmoor line in preparation for hourly services.
In November, passenger trains ran along the line for the first time in 50 years, making it the first success story from the Department for Transport’s (DfT) Restoring Your…
Network Rail engineers have begun work to inspect and rejuvenate five underbridges along the Levenmouth Rail Link in Scotland, as work to bring the abandoned line back into service continues apace.
The £116.6M Levenmouth Rail Link will recommission and upgrade an 8km stretch of unused rail, reinstating services between Thornton Junction…
Network Rail will move ahead with plans to reopen stations in Wellington, Somerset and Cullompton, Devon after receiving £5M from the Department for Transport’s Restoring Your Railway scheme.
These funds will go toward developing detailed designs and a full business case for regenerating the stations, which are to be submitted to…
For the first time in nearly 50 years, regular passenger services will run on the formerly-abandoned Dartmoor Line, connecting Okehampton to Exeter.
It is the first former line to open under the government’s Restoring Your Railway fund, launched in January 2020 to reinstate axed local services and restore closed stations. Network…
Network Rail has completed work to renew a section of track in Newsham, in preparation for the pioneering project to reopen the Northumberland line.
This milestone marks the completion of the first physical piece of work on the project to reintroduce a regular rail passenger service between Ashington and Newcastle, after…
Aecom has been drafted in to help prepare a bid for funding to reopen the 51km York to Beverley rail line.
NCE understands that Aecom is assisting promoters with the scheme’s funding application to the Department for Transport (DfT) as part of the third round of bids submitted to the Restoring…
Five last-minute bids have been added to the list of projects bidding for funding under the third and final round of the Restoring Your Railways ideas fund.
The Department for Transport (DfT) revealed the 85 rail schemes competing for investment in March, but an updated list of 89 schemes has…
The reopening of the railway line between Okehampton and Exeter is one step closer after Network Rail finished relaying the new track and sleepers last week.
Following the confirmation of government funding in March, engineers have worked to upgrade the 17km stretch of track as part of the government's Restoring Your Railway…
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