The discovery of historic mine shafts has delayed works to make Walkden station in Greater Manchester more accessible under the Access for All programme.
Engineers preparing designs for a new lift discovered the shafts under the station. The Coal Authority’s interactive map indicates that Walkden station is within a ‘development high…
The UK ranks among the “least accessible” in a study of railway stations around Europe, but Network Rail's Access For All scheme is ongoing with Port Glasgow the latest to be upgraded.
German travel booking company Omio combined firsthand observations with data from the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC) to…
Construction of the 1.15km rail bridge across the Daugava River in Riga, Latvia as part of the Rail Baltica project has commenced.
Rail Baltica is the 870km high speed railway that will connect the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The £5bn (in 2017 prices) project is ramping up to…
The government has confirmed that it is developing strategies to deal with a potential extreme space weather event. NCE asks what is space weather, how is it monitored and what affects could it have on infrastructure?
Space weather, otherwise known as a solar storm, occurs when the sun emits a huge burst…
A quantum-based navigation system for railways to address issues arising from loss of satellite signal in tunnels will be developed by a consortium led by the University of Birmingham’s spin-out MoniRail.
Satellites are not invulnerable to risk. Risks such as space debris are growing, as well as less well-understood risks like…
Plans for new stations at Castle Bromwich, Coventry East and near Tattenhall will be taken forward after the West Midlands Rail Executive (WMRE) earmarked £1M to develop proposals.
WMRE, part of the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), has shortlisted these three locations following feasibility studies. The studies found that stations in…
Thurrock Council will discuss whether it should pay nearly half the costs to construct a new train station and transport interchange, even though it is technically bankrupt and the estimated price of the project has nearly tripled.
The original Stanford-Le-Hope station, on the C2C line, was demolished in 2020 and a…
High Speed 2 (HS2) contractors have successfully demolished a 4,000t bridge over the M42 to make way for a new twin box structure to carry the new high-speed line across the motorway.
Demolition experts from Solihull-based firm Armac removed a bridge across the motorway near the Interchange Station construction site in…
Network Rail has begun removing earth after a landslip closed the West Coast Main Line (WCML) between Coventry and Rugby.
From today, Monday 12 February, Network Rail will commence de-vegetation work on one of two tracks near Rugby to allow its engineers to assess the damage. Once the vegetation clearance has…
A report compiled by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) details the plethora of reasons infrastructure projects in the UK are often delayed and overbudget, including the clarity of communication between public sector clients and the contractors.
Within the report, released this week, BCG presents its studies of massive UK projects such…
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