Adam OConnor
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Video: Apperley Bridge Station formal opening
Apperley Bridge Station – on the line between Leeds and Bradford Forster Square – has been formally opened, five days after the introduction of a half-hourly train service. It is one of three new stations opening in West Yorkshire over the next few months, the others being at Kirkstall Forge...
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Video: Farnworth Tunnel
Work is being driven forward on the reboring of Farnworth Up Tunnel, on the commuter route between Manchester and Bolton, which is being enlarged to accommodate two tracks and overhead line equipment as part of the North West Electrification Programme. Despite carrying out extensive ground investigations, the project team was...
Infrastructure
Video: Mobile Maintenance Train
Eight Mobile Maintenance Trains (MMT) will be entering service over the next 12 months, based at locations in the East Midlands, on the East Coast Main Line and across the south-east. The trains are intended to reduce the amount of disruptive access needed for routine engineering work whilst improving workforce...
Rail News
Video: Birmingham New Street redevelopment
The redeveloped station at Birmingham New Street will be unveiled on 20th September, a notable landmark in a challenging construction programme that got underway five years ago. It’s a long way from the concrete monolith opened by British Rail in March 1967 when electric services to the capital were introduced...
Infrastructure
The train now arriving
Yorkshire is a county blessed with many great things, not least wrinkled stockings and the Chuckle Brothers. It also enjoys some uniquely characterful place names: Upperthong, Mankinholes, Wetwang, Crackpot. A little more mundane is Idle, three miles north of Bradford, but this name – with its obvious connotations – has...
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Video: IMechE Railway Challenge 2015
Transport for London won the Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ annual Railway Challenge on 28 June 2015, the first team to retain the trophy. The competition brings together teams of university students, industry-based apprentices and graduates to develop, design and manufacture a 10¼-inch gauge locomotive, with the intention of attracting new...
Infrastructure
Boring, boring, boring
Hogging the limelight is something Crossrail is very good at. And so it should be: successfully threading a new railway through the capital’s subterranean clutter – to a few millimetres’ tolerance and without mishap – is outstanding by any measure. It’s a feat the industry should be shouting about, loudly...
Infrastructure
Scarborough Bridge – Monte Carlo or bust
It was a very ordinary structure, comprising two spans across the Ouse to the north of York Station. Its replacement, installed over the February half term, is also pretty average. You might wonder then why I’m wasting your time telling you about it, or indeed why the project cost £6...
Infrastructure
Manchester Airport’s new platform – And then there were 4
If you’d stood in the doorway of Lower Mainwood Farm at Ringway a century ago, the view ahead would have been green and agricultural. Try the same today – not that I’d recommend it – and you’d probably be wiped out by a Boeing 747. Wrecking balls have long since razed...
Infrastructure
Video report: Mobile Flash Butt Welding
The increased efficiency and weld quality from Network Rail’s mobile flash butt welding machines.
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ORR review leads to 50% reduction in maximum fees for ticket refunds
New rules will mean that from 2 April the maximum fee that train operators and ticket retailers can charge...