Rail Projects

We’re thanking all our customers and passengers for their understanding and patience over the festive period while our engineers completed an extensive set of railway engineering work across the Anglia region to benefit passenger and freight services. Major station construction...

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 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...

Deliveries of HS2’s tunnel segments have begun from Hartlepool, using the UK’s rail network to minimise road traffic and drastically reduce carbon emissions. STRABAG, the company manufacturing the pre-cast concrete segments for HS2’s next London tunnel drives, opened a new...

Work to prepare the ground for HS2’s new Network Integrated Control Centre (NICC) and train maintenance depot in Washwood Heath, North Birmingham, took a giant leap forward this week, as the team passed a huge earthworks milestone. Balfour Beatty VINCI...

Over 3,200 companies are already delivering goods and materials to help build HS2, Britain’s new railway. To enhance the prospect of even more local firms winning a share of the work, HS2 has published details of over 300 work...

The Executive Chair of HS2 Ltd and Rail Minister will face questions from the Transport Committee tomorrow (Thursday 30 September). The first time since the Birmingham to Manchester legs were scrapped. Opening the session with a first panel of witnesses,...

From the end of November, Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) will commence major upgrades at Huddersfield station, bringing passengers one step closer to a sleek, modern and more accessible station. The work, which is part of a multi-billion-pound railway programme, will...

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...

HS2 has released new images showing construction progress as work ramps up on the 300 metre-long viaduct that will bring high-speed trains into Birmingham's Curzon Street Station. Over 2,000 cubic metres of concrete have been poured to create the first...