The UK government-backed high speed rail project, HS2, is to pass from government oversight to … government oversight. The arms-length government quango set up to deliver the new…
A police escort for bridge beams, you say? 565 tonnes of them? All 15 of them lifted and laid in under a week? Watch dramatic drone footage of…
Euston, Crewe, and Manchester could all be back on the railway agenda. A U-turn, that most unlikely of railway manoeuvres, is on the tracks, over the future of…
The Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU), the UK’s multi-billion pound railway electrification scheme for the north of England, has a new managing director. James Richardson, who has been working…
HS2 is to pay £300 million (€359m) in compensation to train firms, and it will not go to customers. That is the headline revelation in a UK newspaper…
HS2 Birmingham to Manchester is dead. Long live HS New Birmingham to Manchester. Civic leaders in the Midlands and North West of England are getting behind a study…
The much-maligned HS2 project made UK history this month after the final deck segment of a new viaduct was lowered into place, officially crowning it as Britain’s longest…
The UK’s longest railway bridge, part of the HS2 line out of London, is nearly finished. Despite major setbacks – including the last British government abandoning the wider…
Britain’s high speed rail project, HS2, could be Britain’s high speed broadband project too. The company building the route between London and Birmingham is examining the prospects of…
A highly critical report has cast doubt over many aspects of Britain’s HS2 high speed rail project. The independent National Audit Office, which reviews government expenditure, has published…
Britain’s high-speed rail project, HS2, has asked selected engineering partnerships to tender for a system-wide train dispatch contract. HS2 Limited, the company formed to build the high-speed railway…
In the United States, competition in the intercity rail market is the answer to the almost unusable Amtrak network. The independent non-profit association, ALLRAIL, has called for the…
A lifeline order has been secured for Derby’s Litchurch Lane engineering works. The famous railway works was on the brink of closure. The order book was empty. However,…
A comprehensive long-term strategy to develop the UK’s inter-urban rail network. That, says the industry-wide High Speed Rail Group, is essential for future economic growth and achieving net…
The HS2 high-speed rail project is littered with superlatives. Among them is the Thame Valley Viaduct in Buckinghamshire, England. The low-lying bridge, which crosses a flood plain, is…