Boulderstones Bridge, on Middlewich Road (A530) in Crewe, reopened to traffic on 23 October 2020 after a five-month project to replace it. The railway between Crewe and Chester was closed twice, for a weekend in […]
Emergency repairs to a bridge over Salters Lane, near Bearley, closed the North Warwickshire line between Wilmcote and Whitlocks End on Friday 23 October 2020. Following the discovery of structural damage to the bridge, Network […]
Controlling the vegetation that grows alongside the railway is a never-ending job. It’s worse than painting the Forth Bridge – applying 30-year paint put that ‘never-ending’ problem to bed for a generation. But trees and […]
A level crossing at Cottingham in East Yorkshire has been badly damaged as a driver went through the red lights and hit the barrier. The driver went through the red lights at Cottingham North level […]
A major programme of track renewals in West Sussex next year will see Horsham closed to rail traffic for nine days in August. During the work, no trains will run along much of the Arun […]
Canterbury East is one of the latest to benefit from the government’s Access for All scheme, as Network Rail starts to install new lifts and a new footbridge in a project due to be completed […]
International consultancy and construction company Mace has been appointed by Network Rail to provide consultancy services on its railway improvement programme for the North West and Central Region, known as Project Alpha. A Network Rail […]
One year ago, on 16 October 2019, the Department for Transport (DfT) published the government’s Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline (RNEP). This listed the 58 projects that were then under review at the DfT. It did […]
Usually, when trains have to stop running as the overhead power lines are damaged, that damage has been caused either by the pantograph of a train getting caught up in them and pulling them down, […]
The River Leith runs alongside the West Coast main line near Thrimby, eight miles south of Penrith in Cumbria. Because the river was straightened, it puts the railway it borders at risk from erosion. It […]
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