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HS2 contractors launch Empowering Communities scheme to tackle homelessness and improve skills

17 July 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

HS2’s London contractors – including major construction companies Costain, Skanska, Strabag, Mace, Dragados and Arup – are implementing a major social legacy programme that is intended to benefit communities along the final part of the […]

Appointments

Three new board members appointed to HS2 to “strengthen oversight and scrutiny”

14 July 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced the appointment of three non-executive directors to the board of HS2 Ltd, stating that the move is intended to strengthen oversight and scrutiny of the UK’s largest infrastructure […]

News

HS2 has hundreds of jobs to fill as construction starts

30 June 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

As construction starts on HS2, the high-speed rail line from London Euston to Birmingham and the North, the company leading its design and construction has confirmed hundreds of new jobs that it needs to fill […]

Infrastructure

First structural work completed at Euston in preparation for HS2

25 June 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Demolition of the western ramp and canopy at London Euston station is now complete, paving the way for construction of the new HS2 Euston station. The western ramp had been in place since the modernisation […]

Books

Report highlights benefits of high-speed rail to London and South East

25 June 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

High Speed Rail Group (HSRG) has published a collection of essays by leading figures from the worlds of politics, business and industry detailing the huge benefits high-speed rail has and will bring to London and […]

Business

Construction shortlist revealed for HS2 Birmingham Curzon Street station

24 June 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

High Speed Two (HS2) has named the contractors shortlisted to build Birmingham Curzon Street station – the high-speed rail project’s landmark city-centre terminus. The companies that will be invited to tender for the £570 million […]

Business

HS2 launches Innovation Accelerator

17 June 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 1

HS2 has launched its ‘Innovation Accelerator’ – a search for entrepreneurial ideas that can help drive project efficiencies and create wider long-term economic benefits around the scheme. The Innovation Accelerator is a call-to-arms for individuals […]

Infrastructure

HS2 site at Chalfont Lane gets ready for tunnelling to start next year

11 June 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 1

HS2 has published images of the work at its site at Chalfont Lane, between junctions 16 and 17 on the M25. This is where two giant tunnel boring machines (TBMs) will be ‘launched’ early next […]

Environment

HS2 adopts CESAR ECV emissions identification on worksites

22 May 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

As the main civil engineering works to build the Britain’s new high-speed line get underway, HS2 has announced that it will be creating ‘greener’ construction sites –  reducing emissions and controlling air quality – by […]

Business

HS2 starts procurement competition for signalling and traffic management systems

15 May 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

High Speed Two Ltd (HS2) has commenced its procurement process to decide which supplier will be asked to install both the in-cab signalling and traffic management systems for Britain’s new railway that will run some […]

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  • Battery train sets new world record
  • Paul McNerney to join Severfield from Laing O’Rourke
  • Mick Rayner appointed Non-Executive Director of RSSB
  • Deutsche Bahn needs to find €6.5 billion to complete Stuttgart 21
  • Robin Gisby to step down as the government’s train operator
  • EMR driver training is a family affair
  • Hitachi Rail completes acquisition of Omnicom from Balfour Beatty
  • Cumbrian Coast line closed at Whitehaven “indefinitely”
  • New trains enter service on the Coryton line in South Wales
  • Unipart publishes roadmap to its Net Zero 2040 target
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  • Phil Mortimer: A recent funded R&D project focused on the use of alternatives to steel for the ohl masts. This has several…
  • Nigel: Fully support this restoration from the East Lancashire side,existing infrastructure mostly well built and promises a highly efficient 12 mile…
  • Clive Broadhead: After the undoubtedly achievement of resurrecting the railways in Scotland why are the current NR management he'll bent on squandering…
  • 230001 sets out on its record-breaking run from Reading station.
  • Paul McNerney will leave Laing O'Rourke to take over as CEO of Severfield in the autumn of 2025.
  • Mick Rayner, managing director of Balfour Beatty's rail business, is joining the RSSB Board as non-executive director representing infrastructure contractors.
  • Impression of how Stuttgart station will look on completion.
  • Robin Gisby will step down from being CEO of the DfT Operator on 23 December 2025.
  • 12 trainees drivers have just graduated at East Midlands Railway.
  • Hitachi Rail's acquisition of Omnicom will support its HMAX digital asset management platform globally.
  • Five new Class 756 Flirt trains have entered service between Coryton, Caerphilly and Penarth.
  • Impression of how Stuttgart station will look on completion.
    Deutsche Bahn needs to find €6.5 billion to complete Stuttgart 21
    7 August 2025 0
  • Robin Gisby will step down from being CEO of the DfT Operator on 23 December 2025.
    Robin Gisby to step down as the government’s train operator
    7 August 2025 0
  • 12 trainees drivers have just graduated at East Midlands Railway.
    EMR driver training is a family affair
    7 August 2025 0
  • Hitachi Rail's acquisition of Omnicom will support its HMAX digital asset management platform globally.
    Hitachi Rail completes acquisition of Omnicom from Balfour Beatty
    1 August 2025 0
  • Cumbrian Coast line closed at Whitehaven “indefinitely”
    31 July 2025 0
  • Five new Class 756 Flirt trains have entered service between Coryton, Caerphilly and Penarth.
    New trains enter service on the Coryton line in South Wales
    31 July 2025 0
  • Unipart has published its 2025 Sustainability Report, detailing its roadmap to meeting its Net Zero 2040 target.
    Unipart publishes roadmap to its Net Zero 2040 target
    30 July 2025 0
  • Arriva will restore train connections to communities in Poland’s Kujawsko-Pomorskie region from December 2026.
    Arriva to revive two regional routes in Poland
    30 July 2025 0
  • Tony Lodge of the Centre for Policy Studies has written a report entitled Rail’s Last Chance: A four-point plan to save the railways
    Warning that Great British Railways risks repeating the mistakes of British Rail
    29 July 2025 0
  • The Black Country Innovative Manufacturing Organisation (BCIMO) went into administration on 1 July 2025.
    BCIMO sold to Dudley Council
    23 July 2025 0
  • Railcare reveals the world’s largest battery-powered railway maintenance machine
    5 October 2020 0
  • New UK sales director at Flexicon
    8 August 2020 0
  • Pilot scheme to convince rail passengers to cover up
    28 September 2020 0
  • South Western Railway’s Wimbledon depot receives its first Class 701 train
    2 July 2020 0
  • Selecting face masks
    7 May 2020 0
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