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Construction of four 16m high piers is now complete on High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) 150m long Curzon 2 viaduct, which will take high-speed trains in and out of Birmingham.

North East mayor Kim McGuinness has pledged £8.6M for the development of a business case to re-open the Leamside Line railway as part of the region’s Metro, which could provide spare capacity for the East Coast Main Line (ECML).

The new transport secretary has said the new motto of the Department for Transport (DfT) is “move fast and fix things” as she set out five priorities to deliver “the biggest overhaul to transport in a generation”.

Moving from “predict and provide” to “decide and provide” for long-term transport planning is critical to creating a transport network that supports the UK’s aspirations for economic prosperity, social mobility and carbon net zero.

The $16bn (£13bn) project to build a new railway tunnel under the Hudson River in New York City has received $11bn (£8.6bn) funding from the US government.

The prime minister and deputy prime minister today (9 July) gathered all of England’s regional mayors to “begin the process of shifting power out of Westminster through a major programme of devolution”.

Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) has released detailed images and video of inside and outside the proposed £100M Liverpool Baltic train station as the public consultation commences.

The new Labour government has arrived in Number 10 – we look at the decisions relating to infrastructure such as energy, transport and planning that need resolving by the new ministers.

Network Rail has commenced a market engagement exercise to explore the feasibility of developing an automated system to simulate the effect that interventions have on train services.

The Labour Party is now the governing party of the UK following its landslide victory in the General Election and the civil engineering sector has uniformly said it is standing by to support its ambitions.