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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…
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…
Britain’s highest-profile railway project has a new man in the driving seat. Mark Wild has filled the vacancy as chief executive for the massive HS2 high-speed rail project.…
Britain’s massive high-speed rail construction project, HS2, is closing in on its northern terminal in Birmingham. The first section of the huge station approach viaduct complex has been…
The doors have all but locked on the Alstom train assembly plant in Derby. The famous Litchurch Lane Works has run out of work, and faces imminent closure,…
Britain’s troubled but impressive high-speed rail engineering project, HS2, has crossed paths with the Grand Union Canal. The twenty-first-century railway project has been mired in controversy, and now…
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…
The London tunnels programme of Britain’s high-speed rail project, HS2, has marked a notable milestone. The project to build a new railway between London and Birmingham has launched…
Rishi Sunak, the UK Prime Minister, chose Monday to visit the North East of England. The publicity for the visit revolved around what he called a 4.7 billion…
Britain’s HS2 high-speed rail project has had a welcome boost. Approval has been granted for the design of a system-wide infrastructure maintenance depot at Calvert in Buckinghamshire. The…
Contractors working for HS2 have removed a 4,000-tonne bridge over the M42 motorway. The work is to make way for the construction of the new high-speed line across…
HS2 is now very poor value for money, says an all-party report. The Public Accounts Committee has been examining the economic viability of the high-speed railway, now that…