Topic: Birmingham

Exterior from the street of Birmingham New Street Power Signal Box

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

06-01-2023|Comment|author: Simon Walton

Overhead shot of Marston Bridge sliding into place over the M42 motorway

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

03-01-2023|Comment|author: Simon Walton

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

05-10-2022|1 comment|author: Simon Walton

UK digital signalling project represents nationwide overhaul

Network Rail is integrating new digital signalling systems across the British railway network, in an effort to improve safety and efficiency. The infrastructure agency says that the programme will help provide more reliable and faster...Read more

08-08-2022|1 comment|author: Simon Walton

New UK bridge over doubled railway is music to the ears of rail planners

An impressive new bridge, carrying tracks over the route of the HS2 project, is going down a song in the West Midlands of England. Rail freight planners will have a headache for a few weeks,...Read more

06-05-2022|Comment|author: Simon Walton