Latest Rail News

High Speed 2 (HS2) contractor Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV) has completed the final pushes to move two parallel railway viaducts into place over the M42/M6 link roads in North Warwickshire, making them the first viaduct structures to be completed at Delta Junction.  

The Railway Industry Association (RIA) has urged the government to make a number of “now or never” decisions related to the UK rail network in the upcoming Autumn Budget. 

Keltbray Infrastructure Services has been appointed as main contractor on the £25M Elland station scheme by Calderdale Council and the West Yorkshire Combined Authority (Wyca).

A campaign to restore an abandoned railway line that was promised £150M government investment by the cancelled Restoring Your Railway fund has stated it only needs 1% of this, £1.5M, to complete the business case and pave the way for work to begin.

Transport secretary Louise Haigh is “minded to reject” the development consent order (DCO) for the £750M Hinckley National Rail Freight Interchange, subject to further information from the applicant.

Belfast’s new £105M Grand Central Station has begun its phased opening as it welcomes buses into the new multimodal transport hub.

Spencer Group has been selected to build a £17M wheel lathe facility in Clacton for Greater Anglia to use to service its rolling stock.

Great Western Railway (GWR) has announced services into London Paddington will be impacted up to 2028 to allow for works to construct High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) Old Oak Common station. 

The M62 motorway near Rochdale will undergo two full weekend closures starting this weekend as Network Rail’s £22M bridge replacement at Castleton gets underway.

High Speed 2 (HS2) main works contractor Align JV (Bouygues Travaux Publics, Sir Robert McAlpine, VolkerFitzpatrick) has celebrated the structural completion of the Colne Valley Viaduct, Britain’s new longest railway bridge, with the installation of the 1,000th  and final precast concrete segment.