Huddersfield station to close for 30-day Transpennine Route Upgrade blockade
UK: A 30-day blockade of the line between Stalybridge and Heaton Lodge Junction to the east of Huddersfield will begin on August 30 as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade programme.
Rail industry responds to spending review
UK: The rail industry responds to the government’s 2025 Spending Review on June 11, setting departmental budgets for day‑to‑day spending until 2028‑29 and capital investment until 2029‑30.
Britain ‘could be a global rail leader again’ says Burnham as he urges backing for ‘Northern Arc’
UK: A rail-based ‘Northern Arc’ infrastructure and development programme could help Britain ‘move on from the embarrassment of High Speed 2’ and restore the country’s reputation as a world leader in railway construction, believes Greater Manchester elected mayor Andy Burnham.
Network Rail seeks Transpennine Route Upgrade programme partner
UK: Network Rail has begun the process of appointing a programme partner to support the delivery of the Transpennine Route Upgrade. The 96 month framework contract has a potential value of around £100m.
Five in the running to supply new TransPennine Express fleet
UK: Invitations to negotiate have been issued to five potential manufacturers of new trains which will enable TransPennine Express to move away from largely diesel operation as its core Leeds – Manchester route is electrified.
UK: Delivering a high-capacity rail artery across northern England
A major upgrading programme is in progress to enhance resilience, raise capacity and cut journey times on Network Rail’s busy east-west route through the Pennines between Manchester and Leeds. Murray Hughes investigates.
Liverpool – Manchester Railway Board created to push for construction of new line
TransPennine Express confirms plans to ‘build back’ its timetable
Battery traction trial ahead as TransPennine Express fortunes improve
Long-term and overseas opportunities for rail apprentices
Latest tranche of Transpennine Route Upgrade funding confirmed
Signalling: Visualising designs at an earlier stage
Post-Covid rail sector must understand what it does best, says Haines
Research expertise used to optimise Transpennine Route Upgrade designs
TransPennine Express to stop using loco-hauled push-pull trains in December
Immersive training centre to increase rail worker safety
‘Fully staffed’ TransPennine Express ‘needs to become simpler’
Rail Minister commits to trans-Pennine electrification ‘in full’ and HS2 to Manchester
Manchester rail plans rethought as ‘ambition wasn’t able to be delivered’
Locally guided £72m rail plan aims to unblock northern rail capacity