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A bridge expert at Network Rail has said the industry must challenge current standards, written and unwritten, for designing, constructing and maintaining bridges.

Network Rail Infrastructure has posted an opportunity for suppliers to join a framework for track bed investigations across its network in England, Wales and Scotland worth £45M.

Murphy is to begin the demolition of a 150-year-old road bridge over the railway in Hackney this weekend, Saturday 20 July, closing the London Overground line for 16 days.

Network Rail and its contractor Kier have indefinitely delayed the replacement of the railway bridge over Botley Road as part of the £161M Oxford station upgrade to the complexity of rerouting utilities.

Hitachi Rail and British SME CrossTech are trialling an artificial intelligence (AI) powered computer vision tool on the East Coast Main Line to provide real-time automated detection of overhanging trees, leaves, and landslips.

Rope access engineers have been shown on video conducting restoration activities at Glenfinnan viaduct by civils contractor AmcoGiffen for Network Rail.

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.

Network Rail has begun a project to replace 7km of railway track running through the Severn Tunnel that will see the route closed for over two weeks.

An eight-day closure of the Kingsferry Bridge between the mainland and the Isle of Sheppey commences tonight as engineers replace the next batch of steel ropes in the lifting mechnaism.

The fundamental principles that underpin good bridge design practice may not have changed in thousands of years, but the bridges themselves have. Their uses, structural materials and scale have all expanded and so have the many specialisms involved in delivering them. What has not changed is the end result. Bridges…