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How many times have we looked at clever innovation and wondered why on earth no one thought of doing it before? Often the...

Now, what are the similarities between Cyrano de Bergerac, the central character in the 1897 play of the same name by Edmond Rostand...

Headspans were necessary but now improved resilience is neededGenerally, the railway electrification schemes that first emerged in Britain, before...

Thickley Wood footbridge at Shildon, County Durham, is unusual but reflects the growth and decline of the local coalfields. Spanning the historic...

Signal engineers tend to have a measure of distrust when new ideas and concepts are put forward. This is understandable, given that any radical...

MegaTech celebrates ten years of platforms with a differenceNext time you are standing on a station, waiting for...

User-worked crossings (UWC) are intersections where a railway crosses a right of way such as a road on private land, a footpath or...

With the ever-present focus on putting passengers first, train reliability has to be high up the priority list to achieve this. Modern rolling stock...

Image: Leeds station roof - a TSP project with Network Rail.TSP Projects, the engineering arm of British Steel,...

Merseyrail will be introducing new trains to its network around the Liverpool City Region from next year, replacing the current fleet of electric multiple...

On 8 August the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Michael Matheson, announced the go-ahead for detailed design work to support the proposed reopening of the...

AECOM, the global infrastructure services firm, is developing one of the UK’s first 3D-printed commercial products made from graphene-reinforced polymer. The company’s CNCTArch is designed...

German national rail infrastructure manager DB Netze has announced that construction work to complete the tunnels under the town of Rastatt will recommence in...

East Midlands Railway is the new name on the UK rail network, following its successful bid to run the East Midlands franchise.

Last year, the Aberdeen to Inverness Improvement Project (A2I) redoubled 8.5km of track between Aberdeen and Dyce as reported in issue 168 (October 2018)....

A proposal to install a public access route across Bennerley Viaduct in the East Midlands is currently being considered by planning authorities.