Network Rail has spent months compiling a detailed report on the options for the future of the famous sea wall railway at Dawlish.
Read moreMajor improvements at Dawlish to reduce sea wall disruption
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Bombardier to fit ETCS kit on Heathrow Express ‘387s’
PORTERBROOK has signed a contract with Bombardier Transportation to fit ETCS digital signalling equipment to Great Western Railway Class 387 EMUs, which are being converted for Heathrow Express services. The investment by Porterbrook is valued
Read morePort operator criticises ‘short-sighted’ trans-Pennine route upgrade plans
PD Ports, which operates Teesport in Middlesbrough, has criticised the lack of provision for freight growth in Network Rail’s £3 billion trans-Pennine route upgrade. It called the decision to upgrade the 76-mile route between Leeds
Read moreMangapps expands its collectionwith former Network Rail Class 31s
THE Mangapps Railway, Essex has acquired two former Network Rail Class 31s – Nos. 31105 (D5523) and 31233 (D5660). The privately owned railway has lost all of its big diesels of Classes 31, 33 and 47
Read moreFootbridge of the future?
A JOINT entry by Danish and Czech designers beat more than 120 designs from 19 countries to triumph in a competition to create a new generation of passenger footbridges for British stations. Gottlieb Paludan Architects,
Read moreLight at the end of the tunnel in Sevenoaks
A TWO-YEAR, £21million programme of repairs and improvements to Sevenoaks Tunnel in Kent is almost complete. The 150-year-old tunnel is one of the longest in southern England and has long been a source of delays
Read moreNorfolk Broads swing bridges to be replaced by Network Rail?
NETWORK Rail is considering a bid for Government funding to replace four elderly swing bridges on the Norfolk Broads. The bridges at Oulton Broad, Reedham, Somerleyton and Trowse are considered increasingly unreliable, especially in hot
Read moreNR hails success of £148million festive engineering programme
MORE than 330 engineering projects took place across Britain over the Christmas and New Year holidays in a £148million programme delivered by 25,000 Network Rail staff and contractors. Projects ranged from major blockades running right
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