Work on the £161M Oxford station upgrade has been paused as contractors have unearthed a subsurface arch thought to be part of an old water system.
Network Rail confirmed that the arch’s brickwork emerged during an early ground investigation below the structure. Archaeologists are analysing the find, which is understood to…
High Speed 2 (HS2) Ltd has begun the search for a supplier to design, operate and maintain its Automated People Mover (APM) in the West Midlands in a contract worth £270M.
The APM will move passengers between HS2’s Interchange Station, to be built near Solihull, the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), Birmingham…
The Planning Inspectorate has launched a trial to test potential components of an enhanced pre-application service for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs).
The Planning Act 2008 introduced a new bespoke consenting route for major infrastructure projects in the fields of energy, transport, water, waste and wastewater. Between its introduction in 2010…
Winter storms and high tides have been blamed for delays in reopening Ryde Pier Head station following major restoration work to extend the life of the structure by 60 years.
The route has been closed to Island Line services since October last year but passenger services have resumed today. At the…
Transport for London (TfL) will need £475M from central government to meet its 2024-25 capital delivery programme, prompting renewed calls from the London mayor and TfL commissioner for a long-term funding deal.
Sadiq Khan and Andy Lord, speaking in a plenary meeting at the London Assembly on Thursday 6 July, stated…
The deadline for the TechFest Awards has been extended to Friday 21 July, giving potential entrants just under two weeks extra to submit their entries.
Celebrating innovation in civil engineering and construction, the awards will be held in the evening after TechFest's daytime conference on 23 November at Hilton London Bankside,…
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has slammed the Department for Transport (DfT) over its mismanagement of High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) London terminus at Euston and says it “does not know what it is trying to achieve with the station”.
The DfT took the decision in March this year to pause construction…
Network Rail is looking to improve its communications strategy to better deliver updates about unplanned disruptions from infrastructure failures.
The minutes of the Network Rail board meeting from 23 March, published this week, reveal that the board discussed engagement and communications and what could be done better. The board noted that…
The much delayed delivery of Milan’s new £1.5bn (€1.7bn) underground metro line is ramping up with contractor Webuild opening two more new stations, San Babila and Tricolore.
This now takes the number of stations on the new east-west M4 metro up to eight of the 21 planned for the 15km fully…
A consortium of universities has been awarded £15M to develop and establish a railway research and innovation centre in south Wales.
The funding was allocated by the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund (UKRPIF) to set up the centre at the under-construction Global Centre of Rail Excellence (GCRE) in Onllwyn. It is…
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