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Video showing the construction of Bombardier's 'V Shop' - the facility which is currently being used to commission the new Class 345 trains for London's Elizabeth line. Video courtesy of Inside Out Group

Network Rail has released a timelapse video showing work being carried out to reinstate platforms 20-24 in the former Eurostar terminal at London Waterloo station as part of the Waterloo & South West Upgrade. The footage was recorded last autumn...

Network Rail track workers based at Rugby, Warwickshire, have got into the Christmas spirit early. Faced with spending the upcoming holiday period at work, maintaining and upgrading the railway while it is closed over Christmas, the ‘Orange Army Choristers’ composed...

Network Rail and its main contractor, J Murphy & Sons, are close to completing the £133 million electrification of the Gospel Oak to Barking line. Work on the London Overground line is 80 per cent complete and on schedule to...

One of York’s most anonymous buildings houses the railway’s engineering memory - an archive of around nine million records dating back to the 17th century, but still expanding to take in documents from the 13,000 or so live projects...

A new footpath has been officially opened across Torksey Viaduct, bringing function to a structure that has been quietly rusting since the railway it was built to carry closed in 1959. Designed by John Fowler in the late 1840s, the viaduct prompted considerable debate amongst the engineering fraternity due to...

New drainage systems are being installed on two Grade II listed viaducts as part of a £17 million investment on the West Coast Main Line. Dating from the 1840s, the structures’ original drainage had failed, causing track quality issues and numerous brickwork defects which are undergoing repair. An 11-day blockade...

The railway network has suffered the consequences of a very wet winter, with some sections of line closing for several weeks. In North Wales, the Conwy Valley branch has been out of action since the 27th December due to the effects of severe flooding. Since then, a small orange army,...

Apperley Bridge Station – on the line between Leeds and Bradford Forster Square – has been formally opened, five days after the introduction of a half-hourly train service. It is one of three new stations opening in West Yorkshire over the next few months, the others being at Kirkstall Forge...

Work is being driven forward on the reboring of Farnworth Up Tunnel, on the commuter route between Manchester and Bolton, which is being enlarged to accommodate two tracks and overhead line equipment as part of the North West Electrification Programme. Despite carrying out extensive ground investigations, the project team was...