Tag Archives: Rail

How can new technologies and a systems approach improve rail infrastructure delivery and asset management?

The way rail infrastructure assets are designed, delivered and maintained has transformed over the past few decades, thanks to the introduction of new technologies. The wide adoption of digital tools by rail asset owners and their…

Work on the new high speed rail line across the Baltic States is underway. It will bring critical socio-economic and north-south connectivity benefits.

Rail Baltica is the 870km high speed railway that will connect the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Full scale construction begins later this year. Its…

Involvement of key stakeholders in early design stages is crucial for improved rail project delivery, says Martin Brown.

In May, Network Rail published its Delivering an Efficient Railway document. It includes a target to deliver £3.8bn in savings by the end of the infrastructure operator’s Control Period 7 (CP7) investment…

Work on High Speed 2’s Euston Tunnel construction might have halted, but the construction of the other twin bore tunnels for the project is progressing despite ground condition challenges.

High Speed 2 (HS2) tunnelling activity between London and the West Midlands is continuing despite the government’s decision to halt work on…

Network Rail has announced successful completion of refurbishment work on the Severn and Carno viaduct near Caersws, Powys following a 16 day line closure on the Cambrian line that used innovative techniques to deliver the work. 

The line in central Wales reopened at the start of this week following major work…

Optimising data use and adopting performance-based methods could improve rail asset management decision making, which would in turn improve the operational performance of the railway.

A new approach to rail asset management is currently being trialled on a 19km stretch of railway which feeds into London’s Paddington station on Network…

Recommendations for major rail and road projects as well as fixed links between islands and the Scottish mainland have been featured in Transport Scotland’s Strategic Transport Projects Review 2 (STPR2).

The STPR2 will guide the Scottish Government’s transport investment programme for the next 20 years. The performance of Scotland’s strategic transport…

Network Rail has announced that work to restore passenger rail services in Fife have reached a key milestone with laying of the next section of track about to start.

The £116.6M Levenmouth Rail Link Project is funded by Transport Scotland and will reinstate a 9.km rail line between the town of…

During the early stages of the pandemic Network Rail used the quieter period with fewer trains operating to accelerate some engineering work with the use of longer blockades and a new survey has looked into the public preferences for continued use of this approach.

The Department for Transport (DfT) study was…

An upgrade to the East Coast Main Line, re-opening the Leamside Line and extending the Tyne and Wear Metro are among plans included in the first North East Rail and Metro Strategy.

The strategy – developed by Transport North East and Nexus (the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive) on behalf…