The mayors of the West Midlands and Manchester, with support from Arup, have formed a private sector group to explore how rail connectivity can be improved between their two regions.
Mayors Andy Street and Andy Burnham convened the first meeting on 1 December, chaired by infrastructure expert and former non-executive chairman…
US president Joe Biden has announced a further $3.1bn (£2.5bn) for the California High-Speed Rail scheme, the latest in a year that has seen many governmental sums afforded to rail projects in the United States.
The federal funding has been announced following a steady year in the development of the first phase…
A landslip has closed South Western Railway (SWR) services between Salisbury and Exeter as Network Rail engineers attempt to remove 100t of material from a tunnel entrance.
Trains on the SWR line will not run until next Monday, 11 December, as clay, soil and vegetation must be removed from the Crewkerne…
While a lot of attention has been paid to how the money due to be spent on Phase 2 of HS2 will be reallocated to projects under the banner of Network North, construction on the Phase 1 section from Old Oak Common in west London to Birmingham has continued at…
A Northamptonshire viaduct has become the first on the HS2 project to have all its deck beams installed.
The 163m long Highfurlong Brook Viaduct, near the village of Aston le Walls, is one of more than 50 major viaducts being built as part of the rail project between London and Birmingham.…
Network Rail is launching a masterplanning process around Cardiff Central Station that will see the design and redevelopment of over 4ha of railway land and the delivery of new homes.
Cardiff Central currently attracts 13M passengers a year and acts as a vital gateway to the city centre. The masterplanning process is…
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 search has begun for a contractor to conduct enabling works for the HS2’s Automated People Mover (APM) between Solihull and Birmingham.
The APM will be an elevated mass transit system designed to transport passengers between the Interchange Station in Solihull, the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), Birmingham International Railway Station and…
The return of passenger services to the Northumberland line is delayed by several months as two new stations for the recommssioned line have been beset with construction delays.
Main works started in early 2022 for the return of passenger services to the line between Newcastle and Ashington, which was closed in…
Network Rail has completed a bridge replacement project in Fife, as part of the Levenmouth line restoration, earlier than originally planned.
The rail infrastructure operator replaced the former Bawbee bridge, which was weight-restricted and at the end of its lifespan, as part of the wider Levenmouth rail link project. Removal of…
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