In The News | 13th April 2023

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InTheNews: The latest rail news on Thursday, 13th April 2023 Rail passengers have been advised not to travel to or from London Waterloo on Thursday morning, April 13, due to a major signalling problem. An article on the ITV website says South Western Railway has issued a ‘do not travel’ message to customers.

Advertisement The company said a significantly reduced service will operate, on a very limited number of lines, with disruption expected until the end of the day. Passengers are being urged to check before they travel as disruption is expected on the wider network.

A third giant tunnel boring machine has begun work on the HS2 rail project at Acton. An article in the Ealing Times says the tunnel won’t be used by HS2 trains. Instead, it will be used to deliver materials and remove spoil from the northern portal, where HS2’s Euston twin-bored tunnel will be constructed.

Contractors launched the 847-ton machine (TBM) from the Atlas Road site in North Acton, from where it will build an 853-metre tunnel to Old Oak Common station. It will be completed in around six months, with the tunnel constructed using 4,264 concrete segments, forming 533 tunnel rings. Click here for more details.[1]

Porterbrook’s Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre has hosted Network Rail’s major incident training involving multi-agency partners and emergency services, to exercise the response to a major incident on the railway. During two separate weeks in March, over 300 people took part in the Network Rail National Emergency Response and Validation Exercise. The exercise sought to replicate a mainline incident involving a train and a road vehicle to test the response of Network Rail and their multi-agency partners.

In addition to those who attended onsite, the exercise involved video uplink communications with regional responders and the command structure. Click here for more details.[2] India’s Northeast Frontier Railway (NF Railway) is nearing the completion of the world’s tallest pier railway bridge in Manipur, standing 141m above the ground.

The article on the New Civil Engineer website says the 703m long Noney Bridge crosses River Ijai near the town of Noney will surpass the current record holder, Mala-Rijeka viaduct in Montenegro, which stands 139m above the ground.

The bridge is part of the new 111km railway line which will transport passengers between Jiribam and the Manipur capital of Imphal.

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