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Peterborough station will become a vibrant gateway to the city in a major £2.5 million redevelopment scheme being funded by train operator East Coast and Network Rail. The entire station will be transformed with a smart new...

In just over a year, Network Rail’s dramatic new western concourse opens at King’s Cross station, marking a significant milestone in the area’s ongoing renaissance. Londoners are being urged to find out more about the changes...

Arup has appointed Ngaire Woods as a Non-Executive Director to the Arup Group Board. Terry Hill, Chair of Arup’s Trustees, commented on the appointment: “Ngaire brings considerable international political and cultural knowledge, and we anticipate that she will...

Eurostar, the high-speed rail service between the UK and mainland Europe, today announced a continued increase in overall sales revenue in 2010 compared with 2009. Sales revenue for the year is up 12% on 2009, from £675.5m to £760m. This uplift...

Network Rail is to undertake extensive track renewal and civil engineering works on the line between Dundee and Aberdeen over the next three weekends. The works, totalling more than £3m of investment in the route, will not...

Since advice provided on 29 December 2010, QR National railings in Queensland have continued to be affected by widespread flooding and this is expected to continue to impact over coming weeks. Total tonnages across the QR National coal network, which...

Major improvements to Waverley Station’s Princes Street entrance will begin next month following Network Rail’s appointment of Morgan Sindall to deliver the project.The £7million contract will see Morgan Sindall rebuild Waverley Steps, including the installation...

Once upon a time, there was a railway bridge in Llantwit Major that carried the two tracks of the Vale of Glamorgan line over a narrow residential single-lane carriageway. Originally constructed in 1896, Eagleswell Road underbridge had a span...

In her delicious north-east accent, the elderly lady waiting for her train at Seaham exclaimed, “Oh, a’ve ernly just nerticed tha’ signal’s gone.” She was referring to the prominent cantilevered semaphore that had graced the end of the Up...

I had my first encounter with Birmingham’s Moor Street Station in the early 1970s when, as a very green junior civil engineer with British Rail, I was given the job of gauging its terminal platforms in preparation for the...