Network Rail has confirmed that its £78M project to electrify the railway between Bolton and Wigan has been paused due to contractor Buckingham Group entering administration.
Buckingham Group announced on 17 August that it is no longer able to continue trading due to “rapidly escalating contract losses and a sharp reduction…
St Helens Borough Council on Merseyside has appointed Mott MacDonald to carry out feasibility studies to reopen the abandoned Sutton Oak line and called for funds for other rail improvements in the area.
The council's deputy leader and cabinet member for strategic transport Seve Gomez-Aspron has written to the Liverpool City…
Murphy has successfully replaced a faulty Victorian drainage culvert that was causing disruption to the Chiltern branch line in Buckinghamshire before track work to prepare for High Speed 2 (HS2) trains begins.
Working on behalf of Network Rail, Murphy engineers completely dug up the railway by Aylesbury station in order to…
Network Rail will face criminal action at the High Court in Aberdeen on 7 September for its failures leading to the fatal derailment of a train at Carmont in 2020.
The derailment of a train at Carmont, near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire on 12 August 2020 saw three people fatally killed. The…
Transport Infrastructure Ireland has appointed a multidisciplinary client partner team featuring Turner & Townsend, WSP and Mace for the €9.5bn (£8.1bn) Dublin MetroLink programme – Ireland’s first metro railway.
Turner & Townsend will lead the client partner team, which also features O’Connor Sutton Cronin and PwC. The Dublin MetroLink will be…
High Speed 2 (HS2) Ltd has paid 97% of its invoices within 30 days during the last 12 months, showing an improvement from its 92% rate in 2021, according to a Freedom of Information request by NCE.
As per contract arrangements, HS2 Ltd is committed to prompt payment which means it…
The Department for Transport (DfT) has outlined a pipeline of contracts for East West Rail (EWR) and High Speed 2 (HS2) that will see procurment commence before the end of the year.
EWR is a new £5bn high-speed rail line between Oxford and Cambridge that is being overseen by East West…
Innovators selected for the Global Centre of Rail Excellence’s (GCRE’s) £7.4M Innovation in Railway Construction competition have been briefed on requirements for phase two.
GCRE was established by the Welsh Government as a special purpose vehicle in 2021 to deliver the research facility. This is a major infrastructure project being constructed…
Breakthrough of a tunnel boring machine (TBM) on a 9.6km rock tunnel on the Bahçe-Nurdaği Railway in Turkey marks completion of a key twin bored tunnel on the route.
The tunnel is the second bore driven by the 8m diameter Robbins single shield TBM through challenging geology by contractor İntekar Yapı…
Construction of High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) 3.4km long Colne Valley Viaduct has reached a major milestone with a key 40m long span lifted into place over a local road during a three week closure of the route.
The work over Harefield’s Moorhall Road called for cranes to lift in the 11…
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