Latest Rail News

The 36km Kettering to Wigston railway line has been electrified with 25,000V by Network Rail and its contractor SPL Powerlines as part of the Midland Main Line Upgrade.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed that UK infrastructure projects including the £1.7bn A303 Stonehenge Tunnel “will not move forward” as the government looks to fill a £22bn hole that the government has discovered in its audit of public finances.

Innovative 3D printed concrete toilet pods made by ChangeMaker 3D, CyBe and Baily Garner are to be introduced at railway stations in Wales that don’t currently have toilets.

A West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) official has detailed how work on planning, funding and maximising the benefits of the £2.5bn West Yorkshire Mass Transit (WYMT) network is being carried out.

A series of arson attacks this morning, 26 July, hit French high-speed railways managed by the state-owned company SNCF, causing major disruption ahead of the Olympic games opening ceremony due to take place in Paris this evening.

The South Rail Systems Alliance (SRSA) successfully renewed a full length of track through the Severn Tunnel in one 16-day possession in what the partnership has called a “rail industry first”. .

Engineers from Balfour Beatty Vinci JV (BBV) are using a specialist cantilever process for the first time in the UK to build a 472m long single-track viaduct for High Speed 2 (HS2) in the West Midlands.

Structural repairs to wrought ironwork, grit blasting and repainting, waterproofing of the road deck and resurfacing on the High Level Bridge on Tyneside have been completed by Network Rail’s contractor AmcoGiffen in a £5.2M restoration programme.

Magnetic rope testing (MRT), a technology usually used in the oil and gas sector, was used to find faults in the ropes on the Kingsferry Bridge in Kent.

EMC Elite Engineering Services has been fined after a worker suffered serious injuries while working on a High Speed 2 (HS2) construction site in Hertfordshire.