Preparation work has started for a £3.2million upgrade to the railway bridge over Station Road in Cuffley, Hertfordshire. The railway bridge carries the Hertford line, known as the Hertford Loop, and it was built in […]
PORR’s Austrian Slab Track system has won the contract to provide the slab track for HS2 phases 1 and 2a – from London to Birmingham and Crewe, where HS2 will join the existing West Coast […]
Due to concern that the construction of HS2 may be ‘phased’, and that the East Midlands leg through to Leeds may be delayed, or even not built at all, a group of MPs, civic and […]
Quieter trains may be good for passengers riding in them, but they can increase the risk for pedestrians using level crossings along the line as they will sound different, and quieter, to the trains they […]
Network Rail has published its proposals for major upgrades to the railway between Huddersfield and Westtown (Dewsbury). These plans include doubling the number of railway tracks from two to four and electrifying the eight-mile stretch. […]
San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) has awarded a $798 million (£620 million) contract to Hitachi Rail STS USA for the design, build and installation of a Communications-Based Train Control (CBTC) digital train-control system […]
The Crossrail project, which is being undertaken by Crossrail Limited, will deliver the Elizabeth line under and through London, which is now scheduled to enter service in 2022. Crossrail Ltd is working to complete the […]
With the start of autumn comes leaf-fall time, and Network Rail’s fleet of 61 leaf-busting trains and 80 leaf-busting teams are being readied to help tackle the annual blight of ‘leaves on the line’ and […]
A ten-day partial closure of the railway between Waterloo and Clapham Junction stations is being planned between Christmas Day 2020 and Sunday 3 January 2021. Network Rail is planning to renew completely the switches and […]
Three level crossings on the East Suffolk line are to be upgraded to improve safety, with the work being carried out on weeknights from Tuesday 6 October to 23 December in 2020 and then again […]
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