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The Öresund Bridge, connecting Sweden and Denmark, is one of the key rail nodes of the TEN-T Scandinavian-Mediterranean Corridor. However, many in the rail freight sector have been stressing about the lack of redundancy a…
Friday 23 Feb 2024
Vehicles to be diverted as £5.5m Thornliebank road bridge replacement begins in April
Region & Route:
Scotland’s Railway: Scotland[1]
Thornliebank road bridge will be replaced as the next phase of work begins to electrify the railway…
Conducted as part of the Oxford[1] to Cambridge line project, findings indicate that the London Road level crossing will not be viable once the line is operational.
Banbury[2] MP Victoria Prenits said: “Further studies have concluded that signalling im…
Haughley junction needs to be upgraded to carry more trains from Felixstowe. (Image: Gregg Brown)Hopes of major rail and road improvements for Suffolk could be hit after it emerged that the Chancellor slashed transport infrastructure spending in this w…
Freight operators are ready to invest in new trains, facilities and in skills, providing the Government offers support to help the market grow.
A new report issued by Rail Partners has issued five policy recommendations including a call for Government …
Explore Plant & Transport Solutions has recently made headlines by placing an initial order for Liebherr[1] A924 Litronic road rail vehicles (RRVs), signaling a significant expansion into the rail sector. Following last week’s announcement about the es…
Left to right are Liebherr sales manager Craig Cherry (Liebherr), Explore director Warren Wilkinson, Richard Gee and Simon Cowley from Liebherr and Explore’s head of rail Steve Smith
Explore has placed an initial order of Liebherr[1] A924 Litronic ro…
Network Rail has been carrying out works as part of as part of a £161m upgrade for the city’s rail station since April last year.
These improvements include replacing the rail bridge and moving utility cables in Botley Road so that a new western entran…
Tuesday 19 Sep 2023
Network Rail announces continuation of Botley Road closure after unique challenges delayed the work this summer
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Wales & Western: Western[1]
| Wales & Western[2]
Network Rail has announced that the road underneath Bot…
UN member States took a decisive step towards sustainable low carbon mobility with the adoption on 23 February of the Inland Transport Committee’s (ITC) Strategy on Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Inland Transport[1].
Transport accounts for som…
Rail Partners[1] says that its freight operator members are ready to invest in improving and further decarbonising rail freight, providing the Government can deliver the conditions to grow the market to enable the market to grow.
A report launched toda…
The C1148 Stoke Edith road, which links the A4103 Hereford to Worcester road with the A438, is closed.
The closure is due to works being carried out by Network Rail, Herefordshire Council said.
It will be in force 24 hours a day until 6am on March 10,…
The type of road-rail vehicle involved in the accident (image courtesy of SPL Powerlines UK)
During the early morning of 6th February 2024, a track worker was struck and injured by a road-rail vehicle (RRV) while working in a possession on the Midlan…
Cristina Lago Deputy Editor
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB[1]) has launched a preliminary examination into an accident in which a track worker was struck by a road-rail vehicle (RRV).
The incident happened on the Midland Main Line at Br…