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Network Rail, Siemens and AmcoGiffen have completed the £70M project to upgrade the Ebbw Vale railway line in south Wales.

The upgrades saw 1.5km of track upgrades between Crosskeys and Crumlin, completing an 11.2km loop for trains to pass between Crosskeys and Aberbeeg. New platforms were built at Newbridge and Llanhilleth…

Network Rail has begun emergency works to stabilise a cutting after land movement was detected between Eastleigh and Fareham in Hampshire.

Starting yesterday, 29 January, the works will last for five days until Friday, 2 February. Over the five-day period, Network Rail engineers will be working around the clock to carry…

Network Rail engineers have begun a four-day project to provide vital rockfall prevention measures for the Edinburgh to Glasgow line.

Network Rail engineers have begun a four-day project to provide vital rockfall prevention measures for the Edinburgh to Glasgow line. Starting today, Monday, 29 January, Network Rail plans install a specialist…

Network Rail is preparing to install a new bridge over a London Overground line in Dalston.

Engineers will lift the brand new bridge structure into place using a crane this weekend, 27 and 28 January, to replace a 100-year-old bridge forming part of Kingsbury Road in Dalston. The bridge carries Kingsbury…

High winds caused by Storm Isha overturned lorries and shut down Sellafield among other infrastructure impacts during a “wild night” across the UK.

Storm Isha blew into the UK on the evening of Sunday 21 January. According to the BBC, parts of the UK saw their strongest winds in decades, with…

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…

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…

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…

Network Rail Consulting’s US office has been awarded a $73.2M (£57.5M) contract to provide systems engineering services to California’s High-Speed Rail programme.

The first dedicated high-speed railway in the USA, California’s high-speed network will see high-speed trains linking the Los Angeles basin with San Francisco, with later branches to Sacramento and…