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As a one-time railway operator, I’ve sometimes pondered on which sort of engineer is the operator’s best friend. Probably it depends on what sort of railway you are operating.

A joint venture consisting of Mace, Parsons and Arcadis has been selected as the delivery partner for New York City's $16bn (£13bn) Hudson Tunnel Project (HTP).

The government has delivered a sum of £123M for the Midlands Rail Hub (MRH) and said that “work is set to begin” on the £1.75bn project.

Plans for a new £24M railway station at Haxby in North Yorkshire are making progress as Network Rail has said it has submitted a planning application and has released new images showing what the station could look like.

High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) Chilterns tunnel boring machine (TBM) struggled through the final stretch of its 16km drive as slurry pipes became clogged with clay, officials told NCE.

Network Rail has officially started procuring for civils and construction partners to join its Midlands Rail Hub (MRH) Alliance in a contract worth up to £1.38bn.

Glasgow City Council and Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) has released a tender looking for consultancy partners to aid in making an investment case for the Clyde Metro in a framework worth £20M.

Network Rail engineers have completed a nine-day programme of works to upgrade the UK’s only sliding canal bridge in Keadby, near Scunthorpe.

High Speed 2 (HS2) Ltd and its main works contractor Align JV (Bouygues, McAlpine, VolkerFitzpatrick) celebrated the completion of the first bore of the 16km Chilterns tunnel today, 27 February.

Overhead line renewals, digitalisation of physical assets and more frequent inspections will be carried out as part of Network Rail’s plans to improve performance on its struggling Great Western Main Line.