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Speed restrictions will be in place on lines across Scotland on Thursday (December 7) to help keep people safe as heavy rain and high winds are set to hit the country. The Met Office has published yellow rain warnings covering...

Liam Johnston, Executive Director, Railway Mission In the bustling world of railways, where the heartbeat of transportation connects towns, cities, and industries, the significance of human connection cannot be overlooked. Just as tracks link destinations, the railway industry has embarked...

HS2 today revealed a new spoil conveyor designed to take around 70,000 lorry journeys off Buckinghamshire’s roads and significantly reduce disruption for local residents during the construction of the UK’s new high speed rail line. The conveyor stretches for 1.3km...

East Midlands Railway (EMR) is rolling out a £1 million project to install nearly 200 new customer information screens, including 25 with interactive functions. The project, which is being rolled out working with suppliers Infotec and Thales, will involve fitting...

Hitachi Rail has signed a new framework agreement, worth up to €77 million with SNCF, to provide on-board digital signalling equipment (bi-standard ERTMS/TVM) for the latest generation of TGV (TGV-M) and existing TGV trains that operate across the French...

The railway community is preparing to congregate again at #Railtex2023 – the industry’s anticipated event that shapes the future of rail in the UK and beyond. Spanning three busy days at the NEC arena in Birmingham, it’s an event...

An aspiring engineer from Nigeria is climbing the career ladder and helping to build Britain’s new railway after being handed a one-off opportunity by Bachy Soletanche, a specialist geotechnics contractor working on HS2, with Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering. In just...

The Railway Industry Association (RIA) has today published its own Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline (RNEP), three years after the last announcement was made public by the UK Government. Created in 2019, the RNEP was billed as a ‘new approach for...

HS2 Ltd has begun work on two of the longest cuttings on the new high speed rail project, where the equivalent of more than twenty Royal Albert Hall’s worth of rock and earth must be excavated to provide a...

The line will be closed for nine days, from Saturday 22 October, as Network Rail engineers deliver enhancements to stations and track upgrades - making way for increased rail services for passengers in the future.   The multi-million-pound upgrades will see...