Infrastructure

The freight train had 25 wagons. It is not clear how many wagons have derailed.

Train derailment disrupts traffic in Norway

Following a freight train derailment on the evening of 22 March 2024, the Norwegian infrastructure manager Bane NOR has initiated cleanup operations at Arna station, in Bergen, Norway. As a result, all train services between...Read more
|Comment|author: Emma Dailey

Landslip Britain’s growing number of incidents

Rail users are being asked for patience, as the infrastructure agency Network Rail tackles a landslip. Then another, and another. The landslip-induced closure between Oakengates and Wellington stations (on the Wolverhampton – Shrewsbury line) is...Read more
|2 comments|author: Simon Walton

Borders Railway: blueprint for East West Rail

England’s East-West Rail potential is perfectly illustrated by the huge success of the reopened Scottish Borders Railway. Backers of the project to connect Cambridge and Oxford have cited the Scottish project as an exemplar of...Read more
|Comment|author: Simon Walton

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