This video was recorded at NCE’s Rail and Transit conference. Network Rail chief intelligent infrastructure engineer Karl Butler-Garnham provides insights from Network Rail’s award winning Intelligent Infrastructure programme. The programme is transforming asset management across the network through utilising technology to deliver data and intelligent information to improve the…
Geobear undertook a pioneering railway embankment stabilisation project in 2022.
In July 2022 Geobear designed and implemented a world first embankment stabilisation scheme on the Severn Valley Railway (NCE, September 2022). Eight months after the work began, the latest results from the project have been released. The scheme featured a Geobear…
Reading Borough Council has confirmed that the new Reading Green Park station will open at the end of this month after a three year construction delay resulting from the impact of the pandemic.
Main contractor Balfour Beatty Construction Services UK started work on the £20M station in south Reading, which was…
Closure of a road in Oxford for major bridge work signals the start of Network Rail’s £161M Oxford rail station and railway area upgrade programme.
The rail and station upgrades include expanding the railway to allow more rail services for passengers and freight and reduce journey times in the future. The…
The rail line between Didcot Parkway and Oxford will now be closed until June due to stabilisation work on the Nuneham Viaduct, Network Rail Western has confirmed.
The viaduct, which crosses the River Thames near Abingdon in Oxfordshire, was closed on 3 April after Network Rail’s monitoring equipment installed at the…
Three years ago, train services were cut back, roads were almost empty and Teams calls became the new norm for work meetings as lockdowns were put in place at the start of the pandemic. Less than a month later, then prime minister Boris Johnson gave High Speed 2 (HS2) the…
Network Rail is giving its 154 year old Barmouth Viaduct a much needed new lease of life, while ensuring its iconic heritage is preserved.
Network Rail looks after 30,000 structures. Only nine are timber bridges. Arguably the most iconic of those nine is the Barmouth Viaduct, but at 154 years old…
Last month I speculated about what new prime minister Liz Truss and her now former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng might have in mind for infrastructure within their September mini-budget. If you had your money on initiatives to further speed up project delivery, I do hope you shouted bingo. Kwarteng identified 138…
Irish Rail has awarded Jacobs the contract to develop the "largest coastal protection scheme" in northwestern Europe.
Jacobs has been commissioned for detailed design and planning services for the East Coast Railway Infrastructure Protection Projects (ECRIPP) program. ECRIPP is Irish Rail's attempt to defend long sections of the Dublin to…
Three major railway station upgrades across the country started this weekend as Network Rail looks to improve its facilities and infrastructure.
This did cause some disruption from travellers on both Saturday and Sunday as one station closed and services were altered to accommodate the works. Oxford station closed and will also…
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