The Hope Valley Railway Upgrade is nearing completion with closures planned along the route up until May while Network Rail is also undertaking a big maintenance project on the Brighton Main Line this weekend.
VolkerRailStory joint venture (VolkerRail and Story Contracting) will conduct the last stages of work on the Hope…
AmcoGiffen has installed the steel structure of a new £5M station building at Troon after the original burnt down in 2021.
The station suffered from a fire in July 2021 that saw its building on platform 1 and canopies destroyed. AmcoGiffen was appointed by Network Rail as the main contractor for…
The government has officially lifted safeguarding directions for land between the West Midlands and Crewe, which had been protected for the construction of High Speed 2 (HS2) Phase 2a.
Transport secretary Mark Harper, in his written statement to Parliament, said: “By lifting safeguarding, the government provides certainty to people along the…
The reopening of two disused railway lines in the west of Wales is unlikley as it would cost £2bn and take over 10 years to complete, Transport for Wales (TfW) chief executive James Price has revealed.
As part of the Welsh Labour government’s deal with Plaid Cymru, TfW was instructed to…
A fresh series of delays to journeys have hit Network Rail’s Wales and Western region over the past week, with route operator Great Western Railway (GWR) regularly notifying passengers of service disruptions due to engineering issues.
These come as the Office of Road and Rail (ORR) investigates already poor performance by…
Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA) has outlined £1bn of transport investments for the region including numerous station upgrades, restoring the Tees Transporter Bridge and introducing rail services between Darlington and Hartlepool.
Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen took to social media early in 2024 to pledge a series of transport interventions for…
Shropshire Council has approved funding for restoration of the exterior of the Grade II listed Cambrian Railway Building in Oswestry.
The Cambrian Railway building dates back to 1866 and was both the headquarters of the Cambrian Railway and Oswestry station. It closed as a station in 1975 but has been used…
Train cancellations due to infrastructure related issues have seen a spike in occurrences over the past two years, data analysis from NCE has found.
Figures released by regulator the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) detail the reasons for train cancellations since 2014/15. It shows that infrastructure-related cancellations across the network in…
Transport minister Huw Merriman has met with MPs in Lancashire to discuss the potential reinstatement of passenger services to the northern section of the Ribble Valley line.
The section of the Ribble Valley line north of Blackburn was closed to passenger services in 1962 but remained open for freight. In 1994,…
The Department for Transport (DfT) does not yet have a business case or cost calculations to justify its £2bn pledge for a new Bradford station, but the need for it is clear.
With the cancellation of High Speed 2 (HS2) in October 2023, prime minister Rishi Sunak published the Network North…
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