Latest Rail News

Our major transport routes, whether they be road, rail or air are all increasingly running at or near full capacity, particularly (but by no means exclusively) during the ever-lengthening peak periods.

Carillion Powerlines has won an £11.6M Network Rail contract to deliver upgrades to stations on the Shotts line between Holytown Junction and Midcalder Junction.

Feeling valued and important are crucial to social cohesion; we all need a sense of belonging and to be widely connected.

Design complications have pushed back the next stage of the procurement process for the £263M Barking Riverside extension scheme by five months.

A hi-tech, low-cost system to prevent bridge strikes has been created by researchers at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Smart Infrastructure.

Engineers have been working day and night after more than 100,000 homes were left without power, roads were closed and trains and flights were cancelled as swathes of the UK were submerged in snow and ice yesterday (Monday).

The rail supply chain needs to suggest new ways to deliver infrastructure projects through partnerships and innovative investment methods, industry representatives have been told.

Contractor Murphy has won a major Transport for London (TfL) access for all (AFA) contract to construct step-free access at four stations on the Great Western Main Line route into London.

London Bridge Station will open on time in the new year after a ten day intensive engineering ‘blocade’, Network Rail bosses promised MPs during a grilling over rising costs and further delays on the Thameslink Programme.

High Speed 2 Ltd (HS2) technical director Andrew McNaughton is stepping down to take on a new internally and externally facing strategic role.