Tag Archives: Transpennine Route Upgrade

The transport committee has written to Mark Harper calling the government’s response to its decarbonisation report “disappointing” and has demanded a long-term rail electrification strategy.

Fuelling the Future is the transport select committee’s reaction to the government’s Transport Decarbonisation Plan, released in July 2021, which aims to offer advice on decarbonisation…

Stalybridge station has reopened to the public as Network Rail is due to start an £88M rail maintenance programme over the Easter weekend.

Engineers worked around the clock over 26-days to complete the largest phase of work to date for the Transpennine Route Upgrade and to reopen Stalybridge station. This included…

Network Rail has warned that train services on the Transpennine route will be altered from tomorrow (11 March) through to 5 April to allow a "once-in-a-generation" upgrade to take place around Stalybridge station. Over 26 days, engineers will completely remodel the tracks on the approach to the station, installing over…

Historically the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) has been the UK’s biggest infrastructure project that nobody had ever heard of, according to Network Rail TRU managing director Neil Holm.

“That’s changed a lot in the last year,” he adds pointing to the project’s inclusion in the government’s Integrated Rail Plan, published in…

Network Rail only managed to electrify 2.2km of total track length open for traffic in Great Britain last year, less than 1% of its annual target which is needed to achieve a fully net zero railway by 2050.

The transport body has set a target of electrifying 448km of track a…

Work on the Transpennine Route Upgrade gathered pace over the Christmas and New Year period.

Network Rail engineers carried out a number of works on the £11.5bn scheme to upgrade the line between Manchester, Huddersfield, Leeds and York. While the route was closed on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, major work…

The multi-billion-pound Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) has seen a "major milestone" as almost 60km of electric wires have been put in place on one of the "busiest stretches of railway in the north".

It is the first step towards Network Rail's plans for a cleaner, greener, fully electrified railway between York,…

 This video is from NCE’s Future of Rail conference 2022. Jacobs portfolio operations lead Steve Yule explains how digital twins were used on the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU). The digital twin for the TRU project forms part of the Connected Digital Ecosystem which will improve information accessibility by 50% by the end…

Overhead electric wires were installed on the railway between Manchester and Stalybridge over the weekend as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU).

This is the first step towards having fully electrified local services between Manchester and Stalybridge by the middle of the 2020s. It is being carried out by the…

A long-forgotten railway siding dating back to the mid-19th Century has been unearthed in Huddersfield as part of work on the Transpennine Route Upgrade.

The siding at Hillhouse, used for harbouring off-duty trains, was unearthed while teams studied maps from 1850 to help inform the multi-billion-pound rail upgrade to the route.…