Rail Projects

Rail passengers are being reminded of major railway upgrades which will impact journeys between Aylesbury, Princes Risborough and Amersham from next week (Monday 7 August). The first stage of work will see Network Rail engineers making permanent repairs to a...

HS2’s first two Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) in London, Sushila and Caroline, have completed the first mile of twin-bored tunnel in the capital. Since launch in November 2022, the 2,000-tonne TBMs have both installed over 847 tunnel rings each, made...

Production of over 83,000 concrete tunnel segments for HS2 has begun at a new facility at Hartlepool docks. STRABAG was awarded the contract to manufacture the segments in October 2021 and chose Hartlepool as the location for their new...

Major upgrades on the Trent Valley line to improve future rail journeys for passengers and freight services is now complete. The railway reopened today (Monday 24 July) after essential improvements to the West Coast main line through Staffordshire. During a nine-day...

HS2 has successfully carried out the UK’s heaviest drive to install an intersection bridge structure beneath the West Coast Main Line at Fulfen Wood near Lichfield. The 56-metre-long and 19-metre-wide structure will allow Britain’s new high-speed railway to pass beneath...

From Monday 24 to Friday 28 July inclusive, buses will replace South Western Railway (SWR) train services between Guildford and Petersfield while the line is closed to enable Network Rail engineers to complete a range of vital upgrades to...

Transport Secretary Mark Harper is today (17 July) visiting the West Midlands with his Australian counterpart Catherine King to see the construction of HS2's iconic new Curzon Street Station taking shape. In the next decade, the new station will welcome...

HS2 is celebrating project progress as its London Logistics Hub, located at the Willesden Euro Terminal, has transported one million tonnes of spoil and taken 110,000 lorry movements off roads. The Logistics Hub, managed by HS2’s London Tunnels Contractor, Skanska...

HS2 Ltd has announced that its chief executive officer, Mark Thurston, is to step down after six-and-a-half years at the helm of Europe’s largest infrastructure project. Phase One of Britain’s new high speed rail network, between London and the West...

The Transport Committee has welcomed the Government’s announcement that it will follow its recommendations by revisiting its decision to snub Bradford from plans to develop rail networks in the North and Midlands. The announcement was made in the Department for...