A NZ$45bn (£21.5bn) plan to bore two road tunnels and one light rail tunnel across Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour has been revealed by the prime minister of New Zealand.
Two new 5 to 6km long three lane road tunnels, one in each direction, between the central Auckland motorway junction and Akoranga on…
The two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) delivering the longest tunnels on the High Speed 2 (HS2) railway have passed the three quarters mark.
TBMs Florence and Cecilia have completed over 12km of the 16km Chiltern twin-bore tunnels, passing the fourth of five ventilation and emergency access shafts, 800m from the village…
Network Rail has completed a raft of upgrades to the rail route between Coventry in the West Midlands and Banbury in Oxfordshire.
The railway reopened on 7 August after after “hundreds of engineers” worked over the previous nine days. The rail operator confirmed the schemes encompassed work on the Coventry and…
Channel Tunnel infrastructure manager Getlink is pushing forward with a plan to upgrade a route from the tunnel to Wembley to a more modern freight loading gauge.
Getlink wants to convert the route from Dollands Moor, the Channel Tunnel’s freight depot, to Wembley via Maidstone to the gauge of W12, which…
Cross River Rail in Australia has issued a safety investigation update following a fall at the site of one of the project’s planned stations.
Cross River Rail is 10.2km long railway that will run between the inner southern suburb of Dutton Park and the inner north eastern suburb of Bowen Hills…
Network Rail has paused work on accessibility upgrades of Warwick rail station and a project redesign is underway after the unexpected discovery of foundations believed to be from the original rail station.
Warwick's rail station does not currently offer step free access to passengers using its platforms 1 and 2, which…
HS2 Ltd has unveiled a newly built modular conveyor for a site in Buckinghamshire, which will remove excavated material for re-use in other High Speed 2 (HS2) sites.
The conveyor at Wendover in the foot of the Chiltern Hills was built by HS2 Ltd’s main works contractor EKFB - comprising Eiffage,…
Network Rail’s preparedness to manage the railway network in extreme heats has been put under scrutiny in a series of external reviews.
The railway network’s resilience to extreme heat was tested in summer 2022 during a prolonged period of extremely high temperatures. This saw Network Rail deploying drones and rapid response…
Network Rail has submitted an application for listed building consent to the Highland Council for plans to repair cracks on the listed Glenfinnan Viaduct in Scotland.
Listed building consent empowers planning authorities to ensure that changes to listed buildings are “appropriate and sympathetic” to their character. The plans for the viaduct…
At the end of July, government announced the price list for statutory biodiversity credits and they are pretty eyewatering – but what lies behind this and what are the implications?
From November this year – the precise date is still to be announced – or spring next year for smaller projects,…
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