Colin Wheeler
In the last edition of RailStaff I expressed disappointment at the lack of reportable progress following the exchange of correspondence on this issue...
Colin Wheeler
I had optimistically hoped to write in this edition describing the process and timescale agreed between the Office of Rail & Road (ORR)...
Graeme Bickerdike
There are hundreds of old railway bridges much like the one at Great Musgrave in Cumbria’s Eden Valley. The structure emerged from the...
HS2 Ltd has confirmed that TK Elevator has been awarded the framework to deliver around 300 state-of-the-art lifts and escalators for the four major...
Unrest is brewing in an East Sussex village over National Highways’ plan to infill a historic railway bridge within a conservation area.
The state-owned roads...
Iconic structure benefits from sensitive remedial works over harsh winter.
Since November 2020, 100ft high scaffolding towers have moved across seven of the viaduct’s 24...
Stonea road in Cambridgeshire reopened this week after one of the country’s most hit railway bridges was repaired and strengthened, following a crash that...
Engineering work on the railway over Christmas and the New Year has delivered vital rail upgrades across Sussex and south London.
On the Brighton main...
Hundreds of potentially useful disused railway structures are threatened with demolition or infilling by Highways England under plans described by one campaigner as “finishing...
Lancaster stations’ Grade II footbridge is being refurbished as the city’s railway station evolves for the future.
The historic footbridge, which spans platforms 3 –...
A new fifth platform has been constructed at Stevenage station as part of the Stevenage Turnback project.
This will allow services from Stevenage to run...
Elmers End station footbridge, which links Platforms 2 and 3, has been refurbished at a cost of £600,000.
Extensive steel work repairs have been carried...
The Grade II listed footbridge at Prudhoe station has been opened for passengers after a major project to strengthen, clean and repaint it.
Work began...