Rail Engineer

Work starts on Horden station, County Durham

Rail News RailEngineer - 30th May 2019

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

Whiteball Tunnel

Rail News Collin Carr BSc CEng FICE - 6th May 2019

0

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

Northumberland line could reopen for passengers in 2022

Rail News RailEngineer - 28th March 2019

0

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

“Radical yet respectful” proposals for Birmingham Moor Street station revealed

Heritage RailEngineer - 18th March 2019

0

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

New look for West Midlands Trains across Birmingham

Franchise News RailEngineer - 22nd February 2019

0

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

Birmingham: Washwood Heath train factory demolished

Depot RailEngineer - 19th February 2019

0

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.

An orange Christmas: Network Rail’s works over the 2018 Christmas holiday

Electrification Nigel Wordsworth BSc(Hons) MCIJ - 31st January 2019

0

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

Glasgow Queen Street station – half transformed

Rail News David Shirres BSc CEng MIMechE DEM - 31st January 2019

2

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...

Timing of door closure – how critical is it?

Rail News Clive Kessell - 30th January 2019

1

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

Christmas 2018 at Battersea Pier junction

Infrastructure Bob Wright - 30th January 2019

1

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...

Christmas 2018: Weaver to Wavertree resignalling

Infrastructure Paul Darlington CEng FIET FIRSE - 29th January 2019

0

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,...

Christmas work at Wellingborough North Junction

Infrastructure Chris Parker - 29th January 2019

0

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...

Innovative structural drainage for retaining walls and bridge abutments

Infrastructure Nigel Wordsworth BSc(Hons) MCIJ - 29th January 2019

0

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

Systems integration: navigating increasing complexity

Business RailEngineer - 29th January 2019

0

Guest author: Nassar Majothi, director of the rail specialist services group at WSP London. All too often, major infrastructure programmes...

Class 769 Flex in Action

Rail Projects Malcolm Dobell BTech CEng FIMechE - 20th December 2018

2

On a sunny afternoon in early November, Rail Engineer travelled to Rothley station on the Great Central Railway, at the invitation of Porterbrook Leasing,...

175 years of progress

People Andy Milne - 11th December 2018

0

Electrification of the Great Western main line (GWML) reached a new milestone at the end of October when, following the installation of overhead electrical...

Rail Projects

01530 816 444

contact@railengineer.co.uk

Rail Media House, LE67 3FP, UK

Latest articles

An evening of goodbyes as Gordon Wakeford retires from the Rail Supply Group

CAF wins DLR train order

The 5 bidders for HS2 train order reveal their designs

Popular Categories