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…
A newly anointed lord and top planning barrister has been chosen to lead the independent review of why UK infrastructure is failing to deliver on targets currently.
Charles Banner was nominated by prime minister Rishi Sunak last week, on 6 March, to be created a life peer as Baron Banner of…
A key member of the newly formed project team set to build the $16bn (£13bn) Hudson Tunnel Project has said how early designs and plans for the scheme are taking learnings from similar tunnelling projects that have taken place in London and the UK.
The two tunnels will be used by…
The Suffolk Chamber of Commerce fears the planned Ely and Haughley rail improvement schemes won’t go ahead following last week’s Spring Budget announcements.
The group has written to government ministers and local MPs raising concerns that significant cuts to transport budgets announced in chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget…
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,…
"Massive" benefits could be on their way to universities in the Midlands if new rail connections are created between Coventry, Leicester and Nottingham, according to Midlands Connect.
Midlands Connect, which describes itself as “the sub-national transport body (STB) for the Midlands,” commissioned research from Cencuswide and conducted interviews with senior staff…
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…
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