Network Rail has stated that there will be “493 different pieces” of work taking place as it carries out £90M of upgrades to Britain railways over the Easter bank holiday weekend.
Below we give the run-down of the major engineering works taking place over the four-day weekend from 29 March to…
As everyone settles into 2024 some of the big engineering and construction firms have made big changes within their leadership teams.
As well as National Highways appointing a new chair, Balfour Beatty, Sir Robert McAlpine and others have done some shuffling at the top. A round up of the biggest moves…
The 17th annual National Apprenticeship Week kicked off on 5 February with organisations across the civil engineering sector promoting their own apprenticeship programmes and vacancies.
HS2 Ltd pointed to its existing cohort of 1,400 apprenticeships and said that 19 new roles were opening this week. The firm also said more apprenticeships…
The next phase of Huddersfield station’s redevelopment as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) will begin next week on Monday, 8 January.
While work has already begun to improve facilities for passengers inside Huddersfield station, this next phase of work will involve work on the outside of the building. Through…
The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced a further £3.9bn will be injected into the underway Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) rail project, taking the total government funding to £6.9bn.
The upgrade of the 122km-long rail link in the north of England, which connects Manchester in the west and York in the…
The TRU East Alliance, working together with Active Tunnelling, has completed three new drainage tunnels beneath the railway line at Ulleskelf Mires in North Yorkshire.
NCE sister title Ground Engineering reports that, as part of the work, three tunnel boring machines (TBMs) worked simultaneously side by side beneath the four track…
The transport committee has written to Mark Harper calling the government’s response to its decarbonisation report “disappointing” and has demanded a long-term rail electrification strategy.
Fuelling the Future is the transport select committee’s reaction to the government’s Transport Decarbonisation Plan, released in July 2021, which aims to offer advice on decarbonisation…
Stalybridge station has reopened to the public as Network Rail is due to start an £88M rail maintenance programme over the Easter weekend.
Engineers worked around the clock over 26-days to complete the largest phase of work to date for the Transpennine Route Upgrade and to reopen Stalybridge station. This included…
Network Rail has warned that train services on the Transpennine route will be altered from tomorrow (11 March) through to 5 April to allow a "once-in-a-generation" upgrade to take place around Stalybridge station. Over 26 days, engineers will completely remodel the tracks on the approach to the station, installing over…
Historically the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) has been the UK’s biggest infrastructure project that nobody had ever heard of, according to Network Rail TRU managing director Neil Holm.
“That’s changed a lot in the last year,” he adds pointing to the project’s inclusion in the government’s Integrated Rail Plan, published in…
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