Rising costs and Network Rail's reclassification as a public body were the main factors behind the cancellation of three rail electrification schemes last year,...
SPL Powerlines UK, a subsidiary of the Austrian Powerlines Group, has taken over insolvent firm Carillion's 50 per cent stake in its Carillion Powerlines...
South Tyneside Council has approved plans submitted by Galliford Try to build an £8.4 million skills centre for the Tyne and Wear Metro.
The three-storey Metro...
Any responsible, mindful company in the recruitment and contingent labour market has the same primary objective. “Safety is paramount to me,” said Gary Hardaker,...
BWB Consulting has appointed Jonathan Wright, the former head of Network Rail's building and civils design team, to lead its new rail group.
The engineering...
Duncan Clark, GB Railfreight's (GBRf) director of strategic development, has been appointed to the Rail Freight Group's (RFG) board of directors.
Duncan joined GBRf in 2015...
Network Certification Body (NCB), an independent subsidiary of Network Rail, has been awarded a £20 million contract with CERTIFER to provide independent assessment services for...
Rail accident investigators have raised serious safety concerns after a train near Inverness struck a 130-metre length of rail that had been left on...
Staff from the British Transport Police (BTP) and the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) have raised thousands of pounds for the victims of the Manchester...
Tireless Metrolink advocate and councillor Andrew Fender has retired from the political sphere after 41 years.
Andrew, who was first elected as a councillor in...
The operator of Glasgow Subway, SPT Partnership, has awarded Wabtec Faiveley UK - Rail Scotland a contract worth more than £700,000 to provide bogie and...
Network Rail has awarded Ballyclare a new contract for hi‐vis polycotton workwear following the completion of a tender process.
Ballyclare said that it was able...
HS2 investigators have discovered a sub-tropical coastline which dates back around 56 million years.
The discovery of the previously unknown material was made 33m below the...
Picture the railway of tomorrow and dozens of ideas and innovations come to mind: driverless trains, digital tickets, predictive maintenance, passenger crowd control technology and...
