Latest Rail News

Story Contracting has successfully completed 1,370 repairs to futureproof the 160-year-old Camps viaduct in Scotland at a cost of £6M. 

Network Rail Property has submitted an outline mastrerplan to regenerate a 12ha brownfield site in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park site in East London into an integrated rail freight logistics hub.

Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) has revealed new images of the £100M Liverpool Baltic station ahead of a public consultation that could pave the way for construction to start next year.

The UK’s critical national infrastructure (CNI) “could be left dangerously exposed” if managers don’t respond appropriately to the increasing threat of cyber attack due to tensions between the UK and Russia, China and Iran, officials have confirmed.

High Speed 2 (HS2) main contractor EKFB (Eiffage Kier Ferrovial Bam JV) has passed halfway in the construction of the prefabricated 880m Thame Valley Viaduct.

John Sisk & Son (Sisk) has begun track laying work for a project to reinstate the abandoned Foynes to Limerick Rail Freight line in the Republic of Ireland.

Network Rail is procuring for two contracts to cover reactive and minor maintenance works on civils and buildings in Scotland.

British Steel has won a multi-million-pound contract to supply rail for a new 286km high-speed railway line in Türkiye.

The UK does not have the project management capacity to deliver the government’s portfolio of planned major infrastructure projects, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned.

Just 13 of 147 landslips identified by Network Rail in 2023 were detected via remote sensors, despite the rail organisation having spent £33M to increase remote monitoring and sensing during Control Period 6 (CP6), 2019 to 2024.