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From headset to hard hat

The RailStaff Awards is expanding year on year attracting more nominations, more interest and an ever growing stream of railway staff, friends and families...

Higgins urges northern start

To drive down costs and speed up the delivery of HS2 the project should be started at Manchester and Leeds as a well as...

Hidden Crossrail makes comeback

The Crossrail project is rightly making headlines but a little known secret cross rail, deep below London, could be making a comeback. The London Post...

Network Rail brings forward Carne appointment

Mark Carne will take over as head of Network Rail on February 24 - several weeks earlier than originally planned. In an announcement today (February...

Heathrow and the West

A new rail junction between Langley and Iver on the Great Western Main Line will link Heathrow Airport directly with the West Country. Currently passengers...

Flying Scotsman cleared for take off

Work on restoring the Flying Scotsman, making it fit for main line operations, will continue after doubts about the feasibility of the project were...

A little bit of Jessica

Tunnel Boring Machines Jessica, Ada and Sophia delivered an unprecedented month of burrowing progress in January. Says Andrew Wolstenholme OBE, ‘The tunnelling teams deserve...

Maiden voyage for new Desiro

As the last hours of 2013 ticked away the first of a new fleet of First TransPennine Express Desiros entered revenue-earning service. The maiden voyage...

David McLoughlin to Join Spencer Group as Rail CEO

Spencer Group has today announced the appointment of one of Britain’s most experienced rail industry figures, David McLoughlin, as Chief Executive of its rail...

Happy New Year for David Waboso CBE

David Waboso, Capital Programmes Director for London Underground, has been awarded a CBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list. ‘I am extremely honoured to...

The station now arriving…

Years after it was first mooted, Wakefield’s new Westgate Station welcomed its first passengers on 22nd December, the culmination of a construction project taking...

The bear that roared

Staff at Bombardier’s Derby plant celebrated the production of the 1,000th Sub-Surface line carriage for London Underground. On a family trip to London from York,...

Bold move at Caerphilly

Welsh Minister for Transport, Edwina Hart has opened the new station at Energlyn and Churchill Park in Caerphilly. Work began on the development of the...

Scotland’s new railway

Amongst many other improvements, the next ScotRail franchise is to have faster more comfortable trains connecting its seven cities with scenic trains on tourist...

Cable detection honours its ‘Dealer of the Year’

Cable Detection has named Precision Geomatics Limited as its Dealer of the Year 2013. Precision Geomatics Limited (PGLSurvey) won the award for its "outstanding performance...

Nottinghamshire Station for Crossrail

Stations for Crossrail are being constructed 130 miles north of London near Worksop in Nottinghamshire. Staff at Laing O’Rourke’s factory in Steetley in the East...

High speed run

Seventeen months after the first Meridian reached 125 mph on the Midland Main Line, as part of a testing programme to determine the effects...

Railway staff beat storms in festive upgrade

Despite the additional work of clearing up after yet another winter flood-and-storm scenario, railway staff delivered an ambitious and record-breaking programme of upgrades across...