Network Rail’s finances “deteriorated” in the last financial year and the organisation has warned that route directors “need to understand the tight financial management required” during the “critical first year of the new control period”.
New imagery of the proposed upgrades to Mossley and Greenfield stations has been released ahead of the public consultation of the Stalybridge to Diggle section of the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU).
Contractor VolkerRail has completed six weeks of renewals on South Yorkshire’s Supertram network on time and on budget.
Network Rail has begun its installation of an active travel bridge over the River Leven and recently completed £116M Levenmouth Rail Link.
Transport secretary Louise Haigh has today, 3 September, launched “Shadow” Great British Railways (Shadow GBR) as the first step in the long-awaited major overhaul of the UK’s rail network.
High Speed 2 (HS2) and contractor Eiffage Kier Ferrovial Bam Nuttall JV (EKFB) have celebrated the first fully complete viaduct on the high speed rail project in Northamptonshire.
Access for All, Network Rail’s programme of works designed to provide step-free access to platforms at railway stations has been described in board minutes as “significantly” underperforming.
Rail minister and former Network Rail chair Lord Hendy had an engineer at Systra sacked by threatening to withdraw business from the consultancy unless action was taken after the employee publicly commented on safety concerns at Euston station.
Translink is procuring for a £150M framework to conduct permanent way works on railways in Northern Ireland.
Balfour Beatty Vinci JV (BBV) has celebrated reaching the halfway point on boring the 5.6km Bromford Tunnel into Birmingham for High Speed 2 (HS2).
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