Network Rail takes bids for Midlands project
Network Rail is seeking bids for significant infrastructure deals in the Midlands of England. The infrastructure agency is preparing to undertake major works as part of the Midlands Rail Hub program. Valued at around 1.4...Read more
HS2 Birmingham Curzon Street build begins
HS2 Limited, the company formed to deliver Britain’s high-speed rail project, has begun construction on the landmark Birmingham Curzon Street Station. Whatever else may have been said about the project, the spades are in the...Read more
No first class seat and shorter trains, the HS2 cuts that were not expected
A British newspaper claims to have seen documents from within the UK government. The internal memo suggests that passengers might not be sitting so comfortably on the HS2 high speed railway project. The cancellation of...Read more
Second HS2 Tunnel Boring Machine to pave the way for new railway beneath Birmingham
HS2 work goes on. Construction of Britain’s high-speed rail project is still on course, despite part of the route having been cancelled. An experienced team of 90 engineers has successfully assembled yet another colossal Tunnel...Read more
HS2 progresses in Birmingham and the West Midlands
Despite all the coverage of the cancellation of the northern section and the delayed construction timetable of HS2, work is proceeding on the core route. The civil engineering project to build the line between London...Read more
HS2 cost projections and controversies still raise questions
Britain’s ambitious plans for a high-speed railway network have hit the buffers before even getting out of the station. The project has been savagely cut back from the once sweeping network, connecting almost all of...Read more
HS2 to Manchester officially cancelled: a “betrayal of the North”
It was probably the worst kept secret in British political history. Prime Minister Richi Sunak stood up at his party’s annual conference this Wednesday, and told the nation that Britain’s high-speed rail project, designed to...Read more
HS2 surgery is the wrong choice say leading academics
A paper, credited to several university professors specialising in the rail industry, has warned of the unforeseen consequences of abandoning the HS2 high speed rail project between Birmingham and Manchester. They say amputating HS2’s northern...Read moreHS2: Now Manchester faces the axe
Eastern Leg no more. Euston no more. Now the The UK government is considering even more cutbacks to the HS2 high-speed rail project. With Leeds, Sheffield and Nottingham already off the timetable, now the prestige...Read more
Seven thousand applications for 60-person tour of famous Birmingham signal box
It may be easier to win the National Lottery than to see inside an iconic example of 1960s brutalist railway architecture. Network Rail, the organisers of one-off public tours of the former Birmingham New Street...Read more
Birmingham’s brutalist box bows out
The power signal box on the edge of Birmingham New Street station has finally come to the end of its working life. Last Christmas, 57 years after being commissioned as part of the radical overhaul...Read more
Mind the gap – HS2 bridges major highway
The HS2 high speed rail project in Britain is claiming a world first for their ‘bridge slide’ operation, carried out over Christmas, and over the M42 motorway in Warwickshire, in the English Midlands. Engineers claim...Read more
UK transport secretary delivers high-level speech, short on low-level detail
Literally hundreds of rail-related projects to be progressed. That was the promise of Anne-Marie Trevelyan, speaking ahead of her much anticipated speech to the annual conference of the Conservative Party, on Tuesday in Birmingham. However...Read more