Network Rail has announced that two homes in West Yorkshire will have to be demolished following a landslip in West Yorkshire that occurred in February.
This will enable the rail infrastructure operator to complete the works required to stabilise the embankment. Engineers have been on site at Baildon, near Bradford, since…
Network Rail has stated that there will be “493 different pieces” of work taking place as it carries out £90M of upgrades to Britain railways over the Easter bank holiday weekend.
Below we give the run-down of the major engineering works taking place over the four-day weekend from 29 March to…
Network Rail has announced the winners of its nearly £2bn capital works delivery frameworks for Control Period 7 (CP7), 2024 to 2029, covering the North West and Central (NW&C) region of its network.
These frameworks are divided into numerous categories, A, B, C and D, with a number of big name…
The West Highland line has reopened after Network Rail engineers completed a £1.6M set of essential upgrades to the Rannoch viaduct.
Work to extend the operational lifespan of the 208m long steel structure took place during a nine-day closure of the line, from Saturday 16 March until Monday 25 March. The…
Network Rail and the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) are working to determine the cause of a void opening up near a derailment which took place in Cumbria on Friday 22 March.
Four passengers and four members of staff were safely evacuated from the train which derailed at Grange-over-Sands on the…
Network Rail is investing more than £20M to rebuild a major railway bridge that takes trains over the M62 in Castleton, near Rochdale.
The 42m long, 2,000t bridge, known as Castleton bridge, carries 6% of the UK’s energy supply across the country as freight trains carry material to and from Drax…
Network Rail issued a series of warnings to the public on 19 March about incidents across the railway in Great Britain including a landslip, points failure and a suspected broken rail.
At 07:03, Southern posted to X saying “urgent repairs” were needed on the track at Oxted and the track towards…
HS2 needs private investment Since central government’s cancellation of High Speed 2 (HS2) phases 2a and 2b in October, there has been much hand wringing about the future of the entire HS2 network, as discussed in the two letters published in NCE last month. Fortunately, and despite doom and gloom,…
An electric train has travelled for the first time between Manchester Victoria and Stalybridge, as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU), Network Rail has announced.
Engineers have been testing the new electrification equipment installed along the route as part of the multi-billion-pound upgrade to the line between Manchester and York,…
A 144m bridge for active travel is being built by Network Rail in Duniface to connect the communities of Methilhill and Kennoway as part of the £116M Levenmouth Rail Link.
The bridge is part of the first phase of work on a wider active travel network that will initially focus on…
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