Author Archives: Catherine Moore

Plans for a fully integrated public transport system in Merseyside have moved one step closer with a new agreement with the government.

An agreement has been signed by transport secretary Mark Harper and Liverpool City Region metro mayor Steve Rotheram, committing to the government working in closer collaboration with the…

Bristol City Conservative councillors will call for the mayor to stop pursuing plans for an underground metro system in the city as it is “unrealistic in terms of cost and timescale”.

A motion, to be moved by Conservative councillors at the meeting of Bristol City Council's Full Council on Tuesday 14…

Plans are set to be approved for a new railway station at Edginswell in Torquay, Devon.

Despite the council highlighting a £10M funding shortfall for the station in July, Network Rail filed its planning application for the project in August. A report submitted to Torbay Council's planning committee ahead of a…

Newcastle International Airport has begun the search for a contractor to undertake runway rehabilitation works worth £20M.

This is part of the airport's runway resurfacing programme. Work includes a runway surface rehabilitation, localised deep inlays, construction of additional blast strip, new runway and taxiway surface markings and an upgrade of all…

National Grid is accelerating the connection of up to 20GW of clean energy projects to its electricity transmission and distribution networks in England and Wales.

These include battery energy storage schemes and low carbon projects. On National Grid's transmission network, 19 battery energy storage projects worth around 10GW will be offered…

Network Rail engineers have completed repair work to the Plessey Viaduct, on the East Coast Main Line (ECML) near Morpeth.

Trains services between Newcastle and Scotland have now returned to normal. The viaduct, which carries the ECML over the River Blyth between Cramlington and Morpeth, was only able to carry trains…

Construction of Everton FC's Bramley-Moore Dock Stadium in Liverpool has reached another milestone, with progress made on both south and north stands.

The scale of the steep-tiered south stand has become visible for the first time following the installation of terracing. Almost all of the double-stepped concrete terracing units are now…

Thousands of construction workers at energy sites across the UK are poised to strike after snubbing an “inadequate” pay deal.

The workers, which number over 3,000, are based at sites including Stanlow, Fawley, Valero, Grangemouth and Mossmorran oil refineries and the Sellafield nuclear facility. They have been voting on a pay…

Network Rail is continuing urgent repair work to the railway line through Braybrooke, south of Market Harborough in the East Midlands, after recent storms destabilised an embankment.

The track has been monitored for some time because part of the embankment it sits on was unstable. The recent storms worsened the situation…

Work is underway to build a new £2M flood risk management scheme to better protect homes from flooding in the Pebble Mill area of Birmingham.

The scheme will provide protection from the River Rea to more than 100 residential properties. The area has historically been impacted by flooding, with the…