Latest Rail News

Network Rail will be employing industrial-sized excavators to suck up ballast on its £2.5M West Coast Main Line (WCML) improvement project. 

Feasibility assessments and design work for step-free access is being carried out by Transport for London (TfL) at 12 more London Underground stations.

The proposed Docklands Light Railway (DLR) from Beckton Riverside to Thamesmead extension will have its business case developed following a successful public consultation, Transport for London (TfL) has said.

Officials working up private funding options for the development of HS2’s Euston Station were due to have presented a shortlist to ministers by now, it has emerged.

Network Rail has finished strengthening the Grade II-listed Barnes Bridge in south-west London.

HS2 Ltd is looking for companies’ views on its proposed railway operations and maintenance consultancy procurement.

Trains have made their first crossing over the world’s first heavy rail bridge to use carbon hangers, which traverses the Oder River at the Poland-Germany border. 

The transport secretary is commencing an internal review of the Department for Transport’s (DfT’s) capital spend portfolio to find ways of closing a £2.9bn funding gap for this year, which could spell the end for some large infrastructure projects.

Network Rail has appointed 15 suppliers to its £1.4bn Southern Region minor works, buildings and civils partnership framework, utilising a new model described as a first for the rail sector.

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