Rail Projects

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 Spongy and Successful LiftBarnard’s Lock is a rail underbridge structure spanning the river Kennet, located 3.7km west...

Funded by the Strategic Freight Network, with a contribution from Hutchinson Ports UK (HP-UK), a £60.4 million investment to create a new 1.4km loop...

Construction of a new station at Horden, near Peterlee, County Durham, has commenced and should be complete by Spring 2020.

Now fit for purpose in the 22nd centuryRailway passengers planning journeys earlier this year to and from the...

Photo: SENRUG charter 2008 at Ashington. (David Naden) Northumberland County Council’s plans to reopen the line from...

Proposals for a “radical yet respectful” transformation to Birmingham Moor Street station have been released.The existing station building, which...

Passengers on the Cross City line in the West Midlands (Lichfield - Birmingham - Redditch/Bromsgrove) are starting to experience an improvement in their on-train...

The former Alstom factory at Washwood Heath, Birmingham, where Virgin’s Pendolinos were built, has been demolished to make way for an HS2 maintenance depot.

As usual, Network Rail took advantage of the Christmas and New Year holiday to undertake some of the lengthier and more onerous projects that...

Rail Engineer has reported on numerous infrastructure upgrade projects to provide the extra and longer trains needed for increasing passenger numbers. This extra traffic also...

Much has been written and said in recent times about efforts to improve the throughput of trains on metro and inner suburban railways. Using...

This Christmas, Battersea Pier junction became the latest focus of intense activity as it was renewed over an 11-day blockade. Battersea Pier junction is...

Weaver to Wavertree resignalling is one of the latest resignalling schemes to be completed and involved new signalling between Edge Hill station, just outside Liverpool,...

One of Network Rail’s bigger Christmas jobs in 2018 was that at Wellingborough North Junction, 57m 0ch to 69m 40ch on the Midland main...

Guest author: Alan Bamforth, managing director of ABG Ltd.Railway infrastructure has retaining walls and bridge abutments. Inherent in the...