Construction of a new integrated ticket hall at Elephant & Castle station has been completed to basement level five while preparation for new passenger tunnels is underway.
The London Underground station currently has two separate entrances to access the Bakerloo and Northern lines, which is inconvenient for passengers. The new integrated…
The government’s decision to re-phase High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) Euston terminus by two years has caused issues with London tunnelling including lost efficiencies, according to a chief engineer on the project.
In March the government confirmed that construction of HS2 Euston would be closed down for two years to save money.…
Tunnelling technology start-up hyperTunnel has signed a deal with engineering firm AmcoGiffen to use its systems in the UK rail sector.
Basingstoke-based hyperTunnel is looking to transform how tunnels and underground structures are built, repaired and maintained by using artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and swarm robotics. This approach is designed…
Arup, Mott MacDonald, WSP and Balfour Beatty are among numerous tier 1 contractors and consultants that have been paid a share of the £1.25bn spent to date on works for the scrapped Phase 2 of High Speed 2 (HS2).
The fate of the UK’s flagship infrastructure project was finally made official…
Work is set to restart on the £55M project to create two new stations in the Black Country, after local transport chiefs confirmed that Kier will take over from failed Buckingham Group.
Transport for the West Midlands said groundworks would resume on the sites of Willenhall and Darlaston rail stops after…
Construction of the £26.5M White Rose station in Leeds has reached a milestone with contractor Spencer Group having installed two link bridges from the station buildings to platform level.
The new station is being constructed next to the city’s White Rose Park and will sit on the Trans-Pennine route to Manchester…
Network Rail has been ordered to pay nearly £1M in compensation to those who were affected by the fatal Stonehaven derailment in 2020 that claimed three lives.
The derailment of a train at Carmont, near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire on 12 August 2020 saw driver Brett McCullough, 45, conductor Donald Dinnie, 58,…
Plessey Viaduct on the East Coast Main Line (ECML) has partially closed so Network Rail engineers can conduct urgent repair work on a moved parapet.
The Plessey Viaduct, which carries the ECML over the River Blyth between Cramlington and Morpeth, will only be able to carry trains over in one direction…
Network Rail has alerted suppliers that it is procuring for its £1.2bn Midland Main Line (MML) Electrification Partnership framework, which is looking to deliver electrification more efficiently.
The latest phase of electrification of the MML between Market Harborough and Wigston South, which started in November 2022, has been delivered separately as…
A major new road near Newquay in Cornwall has moved one step closer after Network Rail engineers moved a new road bridge into place over the railway.
The new road, known as the Newquay Strategic Route, will connect Nansledan, on the edge of Newquay, to the A392 at the Hendra roundabout.…
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