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Network Rail to begin repairs on Cutty Sark bridge near Glasgow

Repair work is to be begin on the Cutty Sark railway bridge in the next few weeks. Located outside of Glasgow, the bridge sits on...

Mapping it out – Safe delivery of London Bridge station redevelopment

What more is there to write about Thameslink? The project will forever change rail travel through central London for the better, transforming one of the...

Guiding rail through its technological revolution

telent Managing Director, Rail, Steve Pears spoke to Marc Johnson about telent’s future and how new technology is the answer to rail’s skills challenge. The...

Apperley ever after

Closed by Beeching in 1965, Apperley Bridge station has reopened on the Leeds-Bradford line. Two former stations - Apperley Bridge and Kirkstall Forge - are...

Rail upgrade beats storm front

As Britain suffered extensive flooding, sustained bad weather and gale force winds, over 20,000 members of Network Rail’s Orange Army worked on undaunted over...

New tricks

RailStaff profiles NCB conformance engineer Matt Bower, whose commitment to his own professional development has made him a leading figure in the field of...

Freight delight at HSCrewe

News that HS2 will be put through to Crewe has been welcomed by the rail freight industry. The move will free up capacity for freight...

Crossrail – Scratching the Surface

Network Rail is more than halfway through its Crossrail to-do list. The project’s impressive twin-bore tunnels make up less than a quarter of the...

Goods news from EGIP

Engineers start installing overhead power cables on the main Edinburgh-Glasgow line this autumn as work to electrify the route in 2016 gathers pace. Part of...

Pan Up for Electrification

TransPennine and Midland Main Line railway electrification is back on line after the Secretary of State for Transport, Patrick McLoughlin, green flagged both projects. Network...

Success for biggest ever track renewal

Infrastructure works around Bath described by Network Rail as the ‘single biggest track renewals project ever undertaken’ have been completed. The six-week project to lower...

HallandsaÌŠs Tunnel – 23 years in the making

When an industrial sealant was found to be leaking into the watercourse surrounding the Hallandsås Tunnel site on Sweden’s west coast 20 years ago,...

May Day Makeover

Rail staff who worked over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend have been thanked by Mark Carne, Network Rail chief executive. More than £50 million...

Spring boost for rail industry

Network Rail chief executive Mark Carne has praised railway staff who worked over Easter. ‘Our 14,000-strong army was determined to make sure everything went to...

Midland Main Line electrification – A fairytale ending

The Midland Main Line (MML) is described as being something of a ‘Cinderella’ railway. That’s a nice way of saying that it hasn’t seen much in the...

Spring breakthrough for Crossrail

Deep under the City of London as TBM Elizabeth broke into the eastern end of Liverpool Street Crossrail station, a tunneller waved to workers...

Engineering for safety

Network Rail bosses are asking engineers participating in the National Electrification Programme (NEP) to help reduce accidents and make the railway safer. Roger Dickinson (pictured)...

Hong Kong’s West Island Line Now in Service

Alstom has successfully delivered the new signalling system for Hong Kong’s MTR West Island Line which started passenger service on 28 December, 2014. Hong Kong’s...