A community interest company (CIC) in Northumberland has leased a section of disused railway to make it an active travel path after the 19th century bridges on the route were prevented from being infilled.
Borderline Greenway CIC has signed a 25-year lease with landowner Northumberland Estates for a 2.9km route that…
The future site for the new £30M Aldridge train station in the West Midlands is being secured and cleared by Network Rail engineers, paving way for construction to begin.
The £30M project will see a single platform station built with a 40 space car park and road access from Westfield Drive…
Management of the UK’s rail infrastructure and services has moved closer to being unified under the “guiding mind” of Great British Railways (GBR) with the publication of the draft Rail Reform Bill today, 20 February.
Establishment of GBR was an outcome of the Williams-Shapps Plan For Rail, published by the Department…
Construction of the record-breaking Colne Valley Viaduct for the High Speed 2 (HS2) railway has been halted due to the need for “urgent remedial works”.
In a letter sent to local residents, seen by NCE, Align JV (Bouygues Travaux Publics, McAlpine, VolkerFitzpatrick), the contractor building the viaduct, announced the delay. It…
The Irish government will provide €800M (£685M) funding for all-Ireland priorities, including a major new road, a bridge, train services and the redevelopment of Casement Park stadium.
The “unprecedented” investment package has been sparked by the return of the power sharing Executive to Westminster. The main bulk of this investment will…
Ministers from the Scottish National Party (SNP) have slammed the UK government’s infrastructure procurement, saying there is “£100bn overspend in infrastructure projects without even digging too deeply”.
SNP MP for Kilmarnock and Loudon Alan Brown brought the matter of infrastructure procurement to a House of Commons chamber adjournment debate on 19…
High Speed 2 (HS2) engineers have successfully moved an 84m, 300t steel viaduct section into place over the motorway network in north Warwickshire.
Victor Buyck Steel Construction (VBSC), working on behalf of HS2 main works contractor Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV), utilised a “push pull” jacking system to manoeuvre the section into…
Flying drones beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) of the operator to benefit infrastructure inspections could become legal under new proposals from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
The CAA's proposal would be critical in infrastructure inspection as it would allow visual access to hard-to-reach locations with much lower safety risk. Industries…
The government has announced it is backing the proposal to construct a new train station in St Athan, a village in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales.
Plans for a new station at St Athan will restore services to the area for the first time in 60 years. Transport secretary Mark…
Contractors working on constructing new buildings for University Station in Birmingham have detailed how they overcame site constraints to complete the £56M project.
University Railway Station’s new buildings opened their doors to passengers for the first time on 28 January. With new wider entrances, stairways and exits serving the neighbouring University…
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