Colas, the freight operator best known for their infrastructure support roles, is preparing a site at Old Oak Common in the west of London as a major interchange for rail traffic. The former locomotive and...Read more
Britain’s high-speed rail project HS2 claims it will take an extra 24,000 heavy goods vehicles off the UK roads. The project builders have opened a new aggregates terminal in rural Buckinghamshire, north of London. The...Read more
The Department for Transport has strongly denied claims that the UK parliament has been misled over the massive HS2 high-speed rail project costs. The serious accusations come from the former deputy-head of a wide-ranging review...Read more
There are fears that Britain’s high-speed railway project HS2 may never be extended beyond the London – Birmingham link, currently under construction. The extension of the project to reach Leeds may be shelved according to...Read more
The first train carrying spoil removed from HS2 construction works in London has left the new HS2 Logistics Hub in Willesden. The site of a former railway maintenance depot, is being transformed to serve construction...Read more
The UK West Coast Main Line, the busiest mixed-traffic route in Europe, will see the most extensive programme of engineering works this weekend. The Late May Bank Holiday is traditionally a busy time for operations....Read more
The House of Lords, the upper house of the UK parliament, has raised questions about the future of electrification on the British network. Speaking earlier this week in the Chamber, Lord Richard Faulkner of Worcester,...Read more
New freight terminals planned for Scotland and England have had mixed responses from the neighbours. In central Scotland a new proposal occupying part of a former steel works has met fierce opposition from local residents....Read more
The high-speed rail project, HS2, has celebrated bringing in the one-hundredth train to its Buckinghamshire contraction site in the south east of England. The company says the milestone operations has already taken the equivalent of...Read more
A mothballed North East England line, adding freight capacity to the East Coast Main Line, is under scrutiny for reopening. The Leamside Line, running from Gateshead just south of Newcastle, to Tursdale, just south of...Read more
Several rail connections between the four nations of the United Kingdom have been prioritised in the interim report of the UK Union Connectivity Review. These include connections between Scotland and England via the West Coast...Read more
A mothballed quarry, potentially supplying the HS2 project, could be the surprise beneficiary of a development promoted by the UK government to reverse an overzealous rationalisation programme of the 1960s and 1970s. Forthcoming reinstatement of...Read more
While Britain forges ahead with its HS2 high speed rail project, there are mixed messages from around the globe. While some national and international projects are being fast-tracked, others are hitting the buffers. Somewhat surprisingly,...Read more
The UK Parliament has given the go-ahead to the next phases of Britain’s high-speed railway network, HS2. This will ensure the building of Phase 2A north from the West Midlands to Crewe. Here, it will...Read more
Birmingham’s historic Curzon Street Station will be integrated into the city’s new HS2 terminus. A deal has been struck to save the world’s oldest surviving monumental railway architecture. The building will be preserved and incorporated...Read more
In the UK, the two weeks around Christmas and New Year is the quietest time on the network … unless you are an infrastructure engineer. Network Rail and supply partners have been as busy as...Read more
The company behind Europe’s biggest infrastructure project, building the high speed rail project in England, has celebrated the first year of construction. HS2 Limited has graphically outlined of the scale of the works now underway....Read more
HS2 has an extensive carbon management programme in place, and now it has been recognised with a globally recognised accreditation. The builders behind Britain’s new high-speed railway have been awarded the PAS 2080 global accreditation,...Read more
Logistics UK, the representative body for businesses in the entire supply chain, has said to the UK government that its continued support for the HS2 project, the new rail link between London and Birmingham, is...Read more
Network Rail, the UK infrastructure agency, is beginning a programme of works on the 144-year-old Ribblehead Viaduct, the key link on the Settle-Carlisle Line. The huge viaduct carries freight and passenger traffic through the north...Read more
The huge high-speed rail project in the UK, the London and Birmingham HS2 line, will enable growth in rail freight usage at UK ports. This is according to a new promotion by the rail developers,...Read more
