Walkers in the area of Sleights, near Whitby in North Yorkshire, are being warned of the dangers of trespassing on the railway, following multiple incidents of people using the railway to cross the River Esk. […]
The electrification of the Great Western main line has reached another milestone, as the first all-electric passenger services are now running from London Paddington to Caerdydd Canolog Cardiff Central. While the first electric passenger service […]
Network Rail is about to commence a £2 million project to improve the 18-span Eskmeals viaduct, which carries the railway over the River Esk estuary, roughly halfway between Barrow-in-Furness and Whitehaven in Cumbria. The multi-million-pound […]
Network Rail is replacing 1,200 wooden sleepers on the Tay bridge – one third of total quantity – in a £500,000 programme that will continue until September. Scotland’s Tay bridge, the longest railway structure in […]
The Artic city of Murmansk, home to 300,000 people, has been cut off from the rest of Russia by rail after the collapse of a railway bridge. The bridge, which provides the sole rail access […]
Barmouth viaduct is about to undergo a £25 million upgrade to bring it up to standard and to protect it for the future. The Grade II* listed structure is the only major timber‐built bridge still […]
Demolition has begun of ‘Boulderstones Bridge’, which carries the A530 Middlewich Road in Crewe. It is being replaced in a £5.7 million project that will be completed by October 2020. The main structure will be […]
The tunnels on an underground railway are easy to overlook. To passengers, they are just black holes that their trains emerge from, stop at the platform, then disappear into the tunnel portal at the other […]
The West Coast main line has reopened between Milton Keynes and Rugby after a two-week blockade. The line was closed to allow Network Rail and its contractors to work in Kilsby tunnel, near Daventry, which […]
The Blaenau Ffestiniog tunnel in North Wales has joined the list of Network Rail structures to be illuminated with blue light in honour and gratitude to all NHS staff and other workers who are battling […]
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