Environment
New Dalston bridge to be lifted into place this weekend
A project by Network Rail to replace a 100-year-old bridge on Kingsbury Road in Dalston is reaching an important milestone this coming weekend.
Over Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 January, the brand new bridge structure will be lifted into place...
Rail News
Troon station rebuild pushes forward
Network Rail has taken another significant step forward in the rebuild of the platform one building at Troon station.
Engineers have installed the steel which forms the framework of the structure and creates the footprint for the new building at...
HS2
HS2 begins epic year-long, half-kilometre viaduct deck slide
Engineers this week began a delicate job that will see almost half a kilometre of bridge deck slid into position over the next year, high above the Misbourne Valley in Buckinghamshire, as HS2’s innovative Wendover Dean Viaduct enters a...
Electrification
Scotland’s Railway completes £15 million festive engineering programme
Network Rail has completed a multi-million-pound programme of engineering upgrades across Scotland over the festive period, which will improve reliability and punctuality for passengers and freight customers.
A key junction at Greenhill near Falkirk on the Edinburgh-Glasgow main line was...
Electrification
Network Rail completes festive engineering work for Wales and Western region
Network Rail is thanking passengers and local residents for their patience and understanding over the festive period while it has completed vital railway engineering work.
Over Christmas and New Year, teams have been busy completing multi-million pound improvements, upgrades and...
HS2
First viaduct starts to take shape at HS2’s ‘linchpin’ Delta Junction
HS2 has completed the first 920 tonne deck span on the first precast segmental viaduct being built at the Delta Junction, signalling a construction milestone as work ramps up on the complex network of 13 viaducts in North Warwickshire.
HS2’s...
HS2
HS2 TBMs ‘Florence’ and ‘Cecilia’ reach Chesham Road
HS2 today confirmed that ‘Florence’ and ‘Cecilia’ – the two giant tunnelling machines digging the project’s longest tunnels - have reached the Chesham Road intervention shaft, on track to complete their mammoth 10-mile journey under the Chilterns next year.
The...
Environment
Network Rail releases footage of Dawlish sea wall withstanding Storm Ciarán
Earlier this month the new Dawlish sea wall faced its toughest test yet as devastating wind and waves whipped the south west, withstanding both and winning two engineering awards just days later.
Five metre waves at high tide. Wind speeds...
Digital Railway
Senceive’s upcoming webinar discusses how to transform your data collection from manual to automated sampling
Join the upcoming webinar hosted by Dom Kisz (Head of Product Management at Senceive).
Register now: The Digital Interface Node: Transform your data collection from manual to automated sampling.
Wednesday 29th November 2023 at 3pm GMT (10am EST)
In this 30 minute...
HS2
HS2 completes East-West Rail works at Calvert
HS2 thas completed the last section of earthworks that will carry East West Rail (EWR) services between Oxford and Cambridge over the new high-speed line, near the village of Calvert in Buckinghamshire.
To reduce disruption for the community and speed...
Latest News
Unseen photos from the Coronation released by SWR for the first anniversary
South Western Railway (SWR) has released new, unseen photos ahead of the first anniversary of the Coronation of Their...