Author Archives: Thomas Johnson

The £419M Brent Cross West train station has opened, making it the first new mainline train station to be completed in London for a decade.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan opened the station yesterday, Sunday 10 December, to allow Thameslink services to frequent the newly built North London neighbourhood, Brent Cross…

The world record for the longest single tunnel boring machine (TBM) drive has been broken after Strabag reached the 25.8km mark of its 37km tunnel for the £7.2bn Woodsmith mine project in northern England.

Working on behalf of Anglo American, Strabag is constructing the tunnel for a planned polyhalite mine underneath…

The 28th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop28) has seen world leaders focus on securing investment for green infrastructure around the globe.

Cop28 is being held from 30 November until 12 December 2023 at Expo City, Dubai, with climate finance as the central theme. So far, nations involved in the…

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…

WSP has signed a contract with Xlinks to provide further technical advisory services for the huge Morocco to UK undersea interconnector project.

The professional services firm will now support Xlinks in its route optimisation, power systems and interface management for the plan to construct four 3,800km, high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cables,…

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…

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…

The £82M Bam-constructed Dawlish sea wall has shown its value after successfully defending the Devon coastal railway against batterings from Storms Babet and Ciarán.

Network Rail has detailed how the £82M spent on constructing the sea wall in Dawlish as part of the South West Rail Resilience Programme (SWRRP) has been…