Beaulieu Park station initial works contract awarded
UK: J Murphy & Sons Ltd has been awarded the first of two contracts for construction of the future Beaulieu Park station on the Great Eastern Main Line near Chelmsford.
Wales & Western region framework contracts awarded
UK: Network Rail’s Wales & Western region has awarded six framework contracts for infrastructure works in Control Period 7 (2024-29), with options to extend to a total of eight years.
From aircraft carriers to the Transpennine Route Upgrade
UK: Network Rail has announced the appointment of Neil Holm as Managing Director of the Transpennine Route Upgrade programme.
Three Bridges ROC automated route setting commissioned
UK: Network Rail, Siemens Mobility and Hitachi Information Control Systems commissioned automated route setting at the Three Bridges Rail Operations Centre during December.
Modernisation and efficiency improvements included in High Level Output Specification
UK: There is ‘an urgent need for continued modernisation and significant efficiency improvements to bear down on the cost of the railway’, according to the High Level Output Specification which sets out what the Secretary of State wants to be achieved from the management of rail infrastructure in England and ...
Class 66 freight loco to be fitted with ETCS under East Coast Digital Programme
UK: DB Cargo announced on November 8 that work had started to equip a Class 66 diesel locomotive with the latest iteration of ETCS.
Work starts on next section of Midland Main Line electrification
UK: Network Rail announced on November 3 that it had started piling work on the next phase of electrification of the Midland Main Line.
Video analytics supports lineside vegetation management
Bristol Temple Meads to host Station Innovation Zone
Rail pay and conditions are favourable against market comparators, study finds
ORR finds Network Rail exceeded planned efficiency improvements
Grimshaw commissioned to produce London Waterloo station masterplan
Network Rail maintains good stakeholder engagement, ORR finds
Call to ban adverts for high-carbon products from stations
Avanti West Coast hires train to boost capacity during period of mourning
Network Rail needs to change depot plant asset management
Oxford station remodelling funding confirmed
Eastern region gets newt licence
Solar power to cover 15% of Network Rail’s non-traction needs
National Train Control Systems framework aims to develop UK signalling market