Infrastructure

London – Stirling go-ahead for Grand Union

An open-access service has finally been given the green light. Grand Union Trains, an ambitious would-be operator, has made it third time lucky with their proposals to run direct services between London and Stirling. The...Read more
|Comment|author: Simon Walton

HS2 “green tunnel” for Solihul

Britain’s new high-speed railway, HS2, connecting London and Birmingham, has been approved to build a “green tunnel” under Burton Green, a community lying east of Solihull, in the English West Midlands. The 400-metre green tunnel...Read more
|Comment|author: Simon Walton
In the picture from left to right: Florian Wunderlich (Senior Logistics and Factory Planner, Logsol), Sebastian Bartsch (Project Engineer, Arcadis) Thorsten Praulinsch (Senior Foreman, Wayss & Freytag), Hermann Granig (Foreman, Rhomberg), Dr Hartmut Freystein (Head of the Berlin branch office of the Federal Railway Authority), Dr Daniela Gerd tom Markotten (Head of Digitalisation and Technology at Deutsche Bahn), Dr Dietmar Woidke (Minister President of the State of Brandenburg), Marietta Tzschoppe (Mayor of Cottbus), Tobias Schick (Mayor of Cottbus), Mathias Jessen (Business Unit Manager Building Technologies, ENGIE), Domenic Blancke (Planner, Baumert & Peschos).

DB breaks ground on new ICE maintenance facility

The construction of the second hall at the ICE maintenance facility of Deutsche Bahn (DB) in Cottbus has begun. Brandenburg’s Minister President, Dr. Dietmar Woidke, and Dr. Daniela Gerd Tom Markotten, DB’s Executive Board Member...Read more
|Comment|author: Emma Dailey