Network Rail workers Provide an Injection of Life at Westpoint, near Exeter.
The workers spent five days giving their time to unloading around 100 pallets of equipment from articulated lorries, and setting it up...
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Jan 27, 20212 min read
Morgan Sindall Team Completes 11,000-Tonne Rail Tunnel Push
An 11,000tonne curved concrete box has been pushed under the East Coast Main Line near Peterborough, in what is being hailed as a first...
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rodneypitt9
Jan 22, 20212 min read
A Network Rail Design Competition Could Benefit Push for New Wellington Station
Possible Site of New Wellington Railway Station, seen from Palmers Mead (Image: Daniel Mumby) Efforts to reopen a railway station in...
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rodneypitt9
Jan 21, 20212 min read
Orr Updates Guidance to Improve Safety at Level Crossings
The UK's rail regulator has proposed simpler and more accessible guidance on level crossing safety to improve risk assessments and...
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rodneypitt9
Jan 21, 20212 min read
Cornwall - Biggest Track Upgrade for over 60 years
Passengers in Cornwall will benefit from a more reliable railway as Network Rail is set to deliver the biggest track upgrade in the...
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rodneypitt9
Jan 20, 20211 min read
Trains in Cornwall 'More Reliable'
Work taking place on the rail tracks in Cornwall. (Network Rail) Network Rail has completed its work to upgrade the railway in west...
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rodneypitt9
Jan 20, 20212 min read
Ridley Scott Inspires Network Rail’s Cave-Exploring Drone
A drone as seen in the movie Prometheus (Alamy) When Hollywood director Ridley Scott filmed astronauts looking for aliens in his 2012...
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rodneypitt9
Jan 20, 20212 min read
Five Design Practices Triumph in Next Phase of Railway Station Design Competition
Network Rail and RIBA Competitions have revealed the names of the five design practices selected to compete in the next phase of their...
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rodneypitt9
Jan 20, 20212 min read
How Green is My Railway?
Industry bosses called for battery, hydrogen and electric-powered trains to help meet environmental targets The industry wants to make...
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rodneypitt9
Jan 20, 20212 min read
Lorry Driver Gets Nine Points for Causing 'Bizarre' Railway Bridge Crash
Police have closed the road after a car transporter became stuck underneath the bridge (Paul Geater, Archant) A 62-year-old lorry driver...
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rodneypitt9
Jan 20, 20212 min read
Network Rail’s Enhancement Budget for CP6 Cut
Rail Minister Chris Heaton-Harris has confirmed, in a written answer to a question from Shadow Secretary of State for Transport Jim...
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