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More than 5,000 tonnes of material slipped beneath a 50-metre section of the railway last Friday (March 8) after persistent heavy rainfall over the winter had weakened the earthwork beneath. Engineers from Network Rail and Murphy have been working around the clock since, in a bid to clear the site…

The Blackheath rail tunnel between Blackheath and Charlton in south east London will close for 10 weeks this summer as Network Rail conducts £10M worth of essential repairs.

From Saturday 1 June to Sunday 10 August inclusive, the Blackheath tunnel will close as Network Rail can conduct repairs to the 175-year-old…

Preparatory work is starting in West Yorkshire for a multi-billion-pound programme of upgrades that will transform rail travel across the Pennines.

From next Thursday (21 March) works will start to prepare the 13km rail line between Dewsbury and Huddersfield for a major revamp as part of Network Rail’s £11bn Transpennine Route…

Network Rail has completed a six-day, £1.9M upgrade of the Stranraer line where it replaced more than 1km of track at Laggansarroch viaduct in Scotland.

The work that took place near Girvan included using 200 recycled plastic (composite) sleepers over the structure itself. As well as the composite sleepers, engineers used…

The “complex nature of the site” to remove a 2,500t landslip in West Yorkshire is delaying the restart of train services for several weeks.

Train services through Baildon, near Bradford, will remain suspended for weeks longer than initially expected after issues with the site have caused work to progress more slowly…

Network Rail has begun two bridge repair projects, one to allow the A159 to reopen in Lincolnshire and the other to conduct urgent repair work to a viaduct’s supporting pillars that have started to erode in Cumbria.

Engineers began emergency work to repair a damaged railway bridge on Saturday, 9 March,…

Network Rail has set out plans to revamp Waterloo Station in a far-reaching project that would overhaul a chunk of London's South Bank.

The infrastructure operator published a 'vision document' for the ambitious scheme, drawn up by engineers WSP, architects Grimshaw and cost consultants Turner & Townsend among others. Proposed changes…

A landslip has hit railway services at Merstham, Surrey, which follows a landslip repaired in Kent on Monday 4 March and two other landslips in the Midlands and North of England in February.

GTR said it was unable to serve customers Merstham, Earlswood and Coulsdon South railway stations on the afternoon…

Visually impaired passengers will benefit from accessibility works carried out at Cardonald station in Glasgow following feedback from a regular commuter.

Network Rail said Linda Mooney, who uses a cane to identify obstacles in her path, raised concerns about her safety. The government-owned company said it made changes to the station…

Repairs have been completed on a section of track at Newington in Kent which was taken out of action by a landslip following emergency works by Network Rail.

A landslip occurred on the afternoon of 23 February following heavy rainfall and Network Rail geotechnical and structures experts found a 40m long…