Rail Projects

Network Rail has completed six consecutive days of work on the East Suffolk Line to reduce the chance of disruption to passengers in future. Engineers made vital improvements to a bridge that carries the railway over the River Deben between...

The Levenmouth rail link reached a significant milestone today as Transport Minister, Fiona Hyslop, installed the final clip in the new track. The project includes two brand new stations and 19 kilometres of track, laid over several phases since March...

Three Walsall College students are striding straight into new careers on Europe’s biggest infrastructure project – HS2 - after securing the results they needed in their Construction - Design, Surveying and Planning T-Level. As part of their studies, Jemma Lahert-Cotterill,...

HS2 has completed the first of 32 giant piers for the first Water Orton Viaduct as work ramps up to build the Delta Junction, the project’s most complex network of structures in the West Midlands. HS2’s main works contractor for...

Network Rail is reminding passengers to continue to check before they travel as work continues over the bank holiday weekend as part of a 14-day three-part closure of the railway between Barnes and Virginia Water, Windsor & Eton Riverside...

Network Rail is reminding passengers to plan ahead as no train services will operate out of London Charing Cross and Waterloo East for the next two weekends. Over the past two weekends (12 & 13, and 19 & 21 August),...

Alstom has been awarded a contract by Irish Rail (Iarnród Éireann) to revolutionise rail travel and mobility on the Cork Area Commuter Rail (CACR) network. The project, set to enhance the rail service within the Cork metropolitan area, will...

HS2 is asking for members of the public, living in Ealing, Brent and beyond, to help it chose names for the next two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) that will dig HS2 tunnels under the capital. In early 2024, HS2 will...

HS2 has completed a ‘marathon’ construction operation at Streethay near Lichfield as part of an innovative project to pave the way for Britain’s new high-speed line. The operation – which utilised the latest low-carbon design – involved excavating 14,000 tonnes...

From Saturday 19 August to Friday 1 September, buses will replace South Western Railway (SWR) trains during a three-part closure of the railway between Barnes and Virginia Water, Windsor & Eton Riverside and Hounslow, to allow the newly installed...