Latest Rail News

Network Rail has successfully completed four significant infrastructure projects across the Isle of Sheppey, south London and the rural regions of Kent and East Sussex.

Transport for London (TfL) has announced plans to power the London Underground with renewable energy by developing solar farms connected directly to the network and is procuring for a delivery partner in a contract worth £175M.

East West Railway Company (EWR Co) has confirmed that the new East West Rail (EWR) line between Oxford and Cambridge will be powered by discontinuous electrification.

China’s vision of building the “new Silk Road” has taken another hit as Brazil has become the third country, second in the BRICS block, to pull out of the multi-trillion dollar Belt and Road Initiative.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed that the government will fund the HS2 tunnels from west London to Euston in central London, among other transport and energy spending committments, during the Autumn Budget today (30 October).

Chancellor Rachel Reeves made the first Labour budget announcements for 14 years today, Wednesday, 30 October, dedicating a lot of funds to infrastructure projects that were uncertain. Below, we collect the reaction from stakeholders across the construction, engineering and infrastructure sectors.

High Speed 2 Ltd (HS2 Ltd) has launched the procurement process for a £124M worth of contracts to supply on-track machines (OTMs) to maintain the infrastructure required for the high-speed railway.

Balfour Beatty Vinci joint venture (BBV) has started works on the foundations for the Rykneld Street bridge which will take High Speed 2 (HS2) under the A38 near Lichfield in Staffordshire.

Recommendations for speeding up consenting of nationally significant infrastructure projects (NSIPs) by dealing swiftly with legal challenges have been delivered by the government-appointed independent review.

The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) has announced that a consortium comprising Vinci Construction Grands Projets and Walsh Construction Company has won the $2.78bn (£2.14bn) contract to design and construct the Red Line extension.