Author Archives: Catherine Moore

Teams working on the Bank Station Capacity Upgrade and Tideway feature among the winners of NCE's Tunnelling Awards.

The awards were held last night, following NCE’s daytime Tunnelling Festival in London. Tunnelling Team of the Year was awarded to Dragados and Transport for London for the Bank Upgrade, while Tunnelling Project…

Work on Belfast's new multi-modal transport hub, Grand Central Station, is progressing at pace despite the challenges of the past few years.

Farrans Sacyr JV is delivering the £105M project on behalf of Northern Ireland public transport provider Translink. Main construction began earlier this year. Construction of the station's steel frame…

 This video is from NCE’s Future of Rail conference 2022. Align JV technical director Alan Price outlines important work to reduce carbon on HS2's Colne Valley Viaduct. HS2 set out ambitious goals in their Net Zero Carbon Plan and these aims are being reflected in the development of the viaduct, which is…

Direct trains between Carlisle and Newcastle and Carlisle and Skipton will resume tomorrow after the routes were closed by a major freight train derailment.

Railway engineers have now put the finishing touches to complex repairs at Petteril Bridge junction on the outskirts of Carlisle after several wagons of a train carrying…

A 51km smart motorway upgrade stretching from Greater London across Berkshire, which will cut congestion and further improve journeys, has been completed.

As part of a phased opening, the eastern section of the M4 between junctions 3 (Hayes) and 8/9 (Maidenhead) has now moved to 70mph. This means that the whole…

The RSPB has raised concerns that proposed underground cables - part of an electricity link between Suffolk and Kent - would cause "huge damage" to an area of protected wildlife.

National Grid is planning a sub-sea electricity link between Suffolk and Kent, with the proposed route to pass underneath RSPB…

The collapse of a wooden bridge in southern Norway was caused by a "significant overload", according to a preliminary investigation into the incident.

One car plunged into the river while a lorry became stranded when Tretten Bridge in Gudbrandsdalen Valley broke apart in August morning while two vehicles were crossing it. The 150m…

Network Rail has secured £27.5bn of government funding for operational railway infrastructure in England and Wales for the next five years.

The Department for Transport (DfT) has published its High-Level Output Specification (HLOS) and Statement of Funds Available for the next control period, CP7, which runs from April 2024 to…

The potential delay to the Hinkley Point C project has been described as "worrying" by the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA).

Reports surfaced this week suggesting that the nuclear power station in Somerset will not be operational until 2036, 11 years after its original 2025 completion date. REA…

Plans for Hinkley Point C are "unchanged", despite fears that the project could be facing an 11 year delay.

Reports surfaced this week suggesting that the nuclear power station in Somerset will not be operational until 2036, 11 years after its original 2025 completion date. However a Hinkley Point C spokesperson…